Assistant-driven velocity is real, and so is the risk debt it can quietly accrue. The product leader’s job is to buy the speed without buying the incident: provenance in the definition of done, review capacity on the plan, and vendor claims tested before renewal. This page is the roadmap owner’s route in.
Written for the person who owns the trade-off, sprint after sprint.
The mental model that keeps velocity and safety in the same conversation.
Four numbers that tell you whether the speed is costing you — and which vanity metrics to drop.
What the tooling claims look like under test — useful before your next renewal conversation.
The 90-day rollout plan, the one-page policy, and the twelve questions to put to every AI-tooling vendor — assembled into a working document.