# AI Fit and Risk Assessment Worksheet

Toolkit schema: `PAISEH-TK-1.0`
Source artifact: Chapter 3 **AI Fit and Risk Assessment Worksheet**

Complete `../common-artifact-header.md` first. Use this worksheet before detailed design and before increasing autonomy, exposure, or tool authority.

## 1. Suitability

- Workflow or decision being improved:
- Current pain or opportunity:
- AI value hypothesis:
- Simpler deterministic alternative considered:
- Why that alternative is insufficient:
- Conditions where AI should not be used:

## 2. Decision Surface

- System role: inform / draft / recommend / route / decide / act / monitor
- User-visible output:
- Decisions influenced:
- Downstream systems affected:
- Actions initiated:
- Required abstention conditions:

## 3. Affected Parties and Risk

- Direct users:
- People affected by outputs or actions:
- Operational teams:
- Business owner and accountable decision owner:
- Autonomy level and consequence class:
- Credible failure examples:
- Unequal-treatment, privacy, compliance, cost, and trust concerns:

## 4. Blast Radius and Reversibility

- Maximum records, users, transactions, or actions affected by one failure:
- Pilot exposure ceiling:
- Production exposure ceiling:
- Reversibility and correction path:
- Recovery owner and cost:

## 5. Human Accountability

- Human approval required:
- Review criteria and evidence shown:
- Reviewer qualification and capacity assumption:
- Override, appeal, or correction path:
- Residual-risk owner:

## 6. Product-Fit Gate

- Disposition: proceed / narrow / pilot / require human approval / defer / reject
- Constraints before design:
- Constraints before launch:
- Autonomy and exposure limits:
- Residual risk accepted by and authority basis:
- Decision date, validity, and review date:
- Material-change and reopening events: