The Buyer's Toolkit
Governance

Human-in-the-Loop Gate Map

The criterion: The gate goes wherever the AI changes something real — and the bigger the consequence, the less optional it is. A human where the stakes are high; everything else free to run. That line is yours to set, not the vendor's.

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Don't gate everything — that just rebuilds the bottleneck the AI was meant to remove. Put the human exactly where the consequences are, and nowhere else.

What a human should see before approving a gate

A gate is only worth having if the AI hands the person enough to judge by — not a yes/no box. On any GATE action, a real human-in-the-loop tool puts all four of these in front of you, already compiled:

1Intentwhat it's about to do, in one plain sentence.
2Justificationwhy — the reasoning and the rule it followed to get here.
3Provenancethe exact source data it used, traceable back to the record.
4Action detailthe precise operation that runs the instant you approve — nothing hidden behind the button.

The vendor test: ask any AI vendor two questions — can it hand a person all four of these before it acts, and can you set the gates yourself, on the actions you choose? If the answer is no, you're being asked to rubber-stamp a black box. That's not a human in the loop; it's a human next to the loop.

The AI does the legwork and stops at the gate. You're not babysitting a black box — you're auditing finished work with the provenance attached, then making the call. The drudgery is the machine's; the judgment stays yours.

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