From pilot to production: governing Claude adoption in life sciences

Moving Claude from pilot to production in life sciences requires explicit exit criteria for the pilot, a defined production operating model with named owners, validation evidence proportionate to risk, ongoing monitoring, and a deliberate decision to retire the pilot environment rather than letting it drift into production use.

• Defining exit criteria before the pilot starts
• Production operating model: owners, monitoring, change control
• Proportionate validation and audit-ready evidence
• Retiring the pilot deliberately, not by accident