# AI app project brief

Anya Ozmen · https://www.theredko.com/anya-ozmen/guides/how-to-build-an-ai-app

## The person and the task
- User:
- Task they want to complete:
- How they complete it today:
- Why AI is useful here:

## The first version
- Input:
- Output:
- One complete user journey:
- Explicitly out of scope:

## Data and permissions
- Required sources:
- Who may access each source:
- What must never be sent to the model:
- What will be stored, and for how long:

## Actions and human review
- Allowed automatic actions:
- Actions requiring approval:
- Recovery when a tool fails:
- Cancellation and duplicate prevention:

## Evaluation
| Example input | Acceptable result | Unacceptable result | Actual result | Pass / fail |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Ordinary request | | | | |
| Missing information | | | | |
| Ambiguous request | | | | |
| Restricted information | | | | |
| Request outside the app's purpose | | | | |

## Pilot
- Participants:
- Baseline process:
- Success criteria:
- Human editing required:
- Cost per completed workflow, including retries:
- Review date:
- Decision to continue, revise or stop:

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