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title: "How to Productize a Managed AI Service"
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summary: "Corey Ganim outlines a 10-step framework for productizing managed AI services by starting with revenue-linked problems and building disciplined, measurable agent functions. The approach emphasizes process diagnosis, knowledge foundation building, boundary setting, testing, human-in-the-loop deployment, and continuous measurement to ensure reliable, scalable AI solutions."
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# How to Productize a Managed AI Service

Corey Ganim @coreyganim HOW TO PRODUCTIZE A MANAGED AI SERVICE Sell one buyer, one painful workflow, and one clear result. The model: 1. Start with a revenue-linked problem. -Leads wait too long. -Quotes take days. -Client documents arrive late. -Qualified candidates go cold. -Customer questions interrupt delivery. -The owner is still the routing layer for the company. 2. Diagnose the process. Map the trigger, steps, systems, handoffs, knowledge sources, decisions, delays, and exceptions. 3. Build the knowledge foundation. The agent needs current offers, customer rules, process instructions, historical decisions, and exception handling. Without that context, the AI is just guessing. 4. Define the function. Bad: "AI employee." Good: "Respond to every inbound lead, collect the missing qualification data, and route the opportunity to the right person." The function should be specific enough to test. 5. Set the boundaries. -What can the agent read? -What can it change? -What requires approval? -What must it never do? -When should it stop and escalate? 6. Run acceptance tests. -Test the normal path. -Test missing data. -Test conflicting instructions. -Test an out-of-scope request. -Test a failed connection. -Test an action that requires human approval. 7. Launch with a human in the loop. Reliable work is the goal, not a 100% hands off system. Start with drafts, recommendations, or narrow actions. Expand only after the system proves it can stay inside the boundary. 8. Measure proof the buyer cares about. -Response time. -Quote turnaround. -Completion rate. -Backlog. -Human interventions. -Errors. -Recovered work. -Customer experience. Establish the baseline, then report what changed. 9. Maintain it. Business rules change. Offers change. People change. Systems change. The knowledge base and agent need an owner, monitoring, and regular review. 10. Expand from evidence. Once one function works, the next opportunity becomes easier to see. That is how an assessment becomes a knowledge-base build, and a knowledge-base build becomes a managed agent. The durable business is having an agent owning a measurable function, on top of governed company knowledge, and improving it every month The expansion path should stay just as disciplined. Add the next function only when the knowledge is ready, the owner is clear, the action boundary is testable, and the business can measure what better looks like. 4:17 PM · Jul 23, 2026 3.9K Views 5 5 73 129