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How the Customer-Facing AI Output Risk Triage gate works
How the Customer-Facing AI Output Risk Triage rolls up 4 AI surfaces to the worst: a policy-invention-and-no-human-exit gate forces HIGH RISK — which is how a support bot scoring 58 forces the whole set to HOLD THE SET despite a 73 mean.
How the gate works
This tool grades every customer-facing AI surface - support bot, product-page copy, FAQ generator - on liability exposure. It reads 4 surfaces and rolls them into one verdict — the worst, never the average — and then a gate that can only make it worse.
The 4 surfaces
| Surface | Verdict |
|---|---|
| SUPPORT-BOTfix first | HIGH RISKcontrol 58/100 · policy-invention and human-exit both at 0 |
| CHAT-WIDGET | REVIEWcontrol 50/100 · every control only partial |
| PRODUCT-PAGE-COPY | LOWcontrol 85/100 · performance-claim and grounding partial |
| FAQ-GENERATOR | LOWcontrol 100/100 · every control well-controlled |
The verdict bands
A surface that can state policy with no grounding (policy-invention control at 0) AND offers no human escalation (human-exit ramp at 0) is HIGH RISK regardless of every other control. The two must fail together - either alone is graded on score alone.
In the worked sample it reads HOLD THE SET — Four customer-facing surfaces, mean control 73/100. Two read clean (FAQ-GENERATOR 100, PRODUCT-PAGE-COPY 85) and CHAT-WIDGET is a middling 50 (REVIEW). But SUPPORT-BOT can state policy with zero grounding and offers no human exit - both gate controls sit at 0. One gated surface is enough: the set posture is HOLD THE SET, worst-not-average. The one thing to fix first: SUPPORT-BOT - open the policy-invention or human-exit control (both are at 0); either one releases the gate..
Common questions
Can every surface look survivable on the How the Customer-Facing AI Output Risk Triage gate works and the company still read HOLD THE SET?
Yes. The roll-up takes the worst of 4 surfaces — never the average — then a worsen-only gate, the Policy-invention + human-exit gate gate, escalates when trouble clusters. In the worked sample it reads HOLD THE SET because four customer-facing surfaces, mean control 73/100. Two read clean (FAQ-GENERATOR 100, PRODUCT-PAGE-COPY 85) and CHAT-WIDGET is a middling 50 (REVIEW). But SUPPORT-BOT can state policy with zero grounding and offers no human exit - both gate controls sit at 0. One gated surface is enough: the set posture is HOLD THE SET, worst-not-average.
What is a worsen-only gate?
A dispositive rule that can only lower a verdict, never raise it. One fatal flaw overrides an otherwise-set of survivable lines, because a single disqualifying gap shouldn't hide behind an average of the healthy ones. The tool also names the one thing to fix first — here, "SUPPORT-BOT - open the policy-invention or human-exit control (both are at 0); either one releases the gate.".
Not a live test of your systems and not legal advice. A risk-triage aid; bring counsel to anything it flags.
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