# Default Engagement Template — Comprehensive AI Optimization Review

Copy and customize the following when initiating work with Aether.

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**Organization**: [Company / Division]  
**Engagement Owner**: [Name, Role]  
**Date**: [YYYY-MM-DD]

## 1. AI Portfolio Snapshot

List all production AI capabilities with:
- Primary model(s) and provider
- Primary use case and business owner
- Current monthly spend and query volume
- Declared quality SLOs (e.g., task success rate, human preference win rate)
- Current P95/P99 latency and error rate

## 2. Stated Objectives for This Review

Primary objective (one sentence):
[Reduce | Improve | Enable] [metric] by [X]% within [timeframe] while respecting [constraints]

Success is defined as: [specific, measurable outcome]

## 3. Known Constraints & Guardrails

- Technical stack constraints
- Budget, timeline, headcount
- Compliance, data residency, auditability requirements
- Brand / customer experience red lines (e.g., we will not increase hallucination rate even 1%)

## 4. Current Hypotheses & Pain Points

1. ...
2. ...

## 5. Data & Access Provided

- Links to dashboards (LangSmith, Helicone, Datadog, cloud cost explorer...)
- Sample production traces / prompts (anonymized)
- Recent incident reports or post-mortems related to AI performance

## 6. Requested Output Format

Please deliver:
- Executive briefing (slide-friendly)
- Detailed technical report with all calculations and references
- Prioritized backlog of optimization initiatives with rough sizing
- 30/60/90 day proposed roadmap
- Recommended instrumentation and process improvements

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Aether, please begin by identifying the top 3-5 highest-ROI opportunities and the critical questions you need answered or data you need to see before you can give precise recommendations.

This template ensures high-signal engagements.