AI that not only answers but works
Most know AI as a clever chatbot: you ask a question and get an answer. But that is already yesterday. Modern AI not only answers, it works. It reads your documents, operates your programs, writes, checks its own output, and delivers. It carries out an entire task from the idea to the finished result, just like a well-rehearsed team would.
Whether good work is really produced in the end is not a coincidence. It is determined by four drivers and one Process, which leads each phase cleanly, from the requirement through testing and review to acceptance. Those who understand both see immediately: AI is no longer a toy today, but real value creation. Very few companies work this way yet. That is exactly where your advantage lies.
The four drivers
Four things determine whether a good job comes from an AI, just like with a machine and a human. You determine the first, the goal, in conversation with us. If the other three are in place, the AI takes care of the rest, and you only decide where it matters.
Four drivers collectively determine the result. If one fails, the quality tips.
Order → Prompt and specification
The goal and the guidelines
What should come out, and what must not happen. We determine this driver in the conversation.
- The goal in one sentence, the actual requirement
- Acceptance criteria: when is the result considered correct
- Architecture, rules, and test specifications as files
- Examples, counterexamples, and clear boundaries
- Priorities and order of steps
Tools → Tools
What the AI acts with, instead of just talking
The hands and eyes. Without tools, a model remains an advisor; with them, it becomes a collaborator.
- Read and write files and folders
- Query and fill databases
- Operate web and browser
- Control the screen for programs without an interface
- E-mail, Teams, Calendar
- Specialized systems like SAP, SharePoint, Power BI
- Build, test, and deliver code
Knowledge → corporate knowledge
What the AI draws from
So that it can respond based on the company’s own knowledge and doesn’t have to invent anything.
- Company folder: Documents, manuals, presentations
- Emails and meeting minutes
- Technical drawings and specifications
- Standards, regulations, and guidelines
- Master data and databases
- Searchable, with source citation
Budget → Model and computational effort
How much computational effort a task receives
Tempo versus quality, consciously chosen. A short question doesn’t need a large model.
- Small, fast model for simple tasks
- Large model for difficult tasks
- More or less thinking depending on the difficulty
- Locally on your own hardware or in the cloud
- Costs per run, visible in numbers
The entire process
Not just code. An AI follows the same arc as a well-rehearsed team, from requirements through testing and review to release and acceptance. Each phase has its technical term and role, and each is fully executed by the AI.
Each role group is occupied, not claimed:
- Product & Management phases
- Specialist area phases
- development phases
- Quality & Testing phases
- Documentation & Support1 Phase
- Operations & DevOps phases
- 1Idea and AssignmentAI completed
Technical termKickoff
Product & Management - 2RequirementsAI completed
Technical termURS, Requirements catalog
Specialist area - 3SpecificationAI completed
Technical termFunction and Data Spec
Specialist area - 4PlanningAI completed
Technical termBacklog, Sprint, Refinement
Product & Management - 5programmingAI completed
Technical termImplementation
development - 6Version ControlAI completed
Technical termGit
development - 7Writing TestsAI completed
Technical termUnit, Integration, E2E
Quality & Testing - 8Test runAI completed
Technical termautomated test run
Quality & Testing - 9Review and approvalAI completed
Technical termCode review, gates
Quality & Testing - 10Feedback and bug fixingAI completed
Technical termiterative
development - 11traceabilityAI completed
Technical termTraceability matrix
Quality & Testing - 12documentationAI completed
Technical termtechnical and user
Documentation & Support - 13build pipelineAI completed
Technical termCI
Operations & DevOps - 14release and deliveryAI completed
Technical termdeployment
Operations & DevOps - 15acceptanceAI completed
Technical termacceptance protocol
Product & Management - 16operations and feedbackAI completed
Technical termoperations
Operations & DevOps
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