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Who maintains an AI tool after delivery?

Documents, accounts, models and business rules change.

The short answer

Delivery does not imply perpetual correctness. Define owners, change reporting, support and exit plans, checking operation separately from rule validity.

Try it in three steps

  • Assign owners for data, rules, software and accounts.
  • Define retesting (checking again using the same steps) after changes.
  • Keep export, backup and shutdown procedures.

A practice prompt

Before you start

Draft an ownership table without inventing response-time commitments.

Practice material (fictional)

Content owner updates the manual; tool owner manages accounts; implementer handles agreed software defects; reviewer approves external rules.

Replace placeholders in the prompt with this material, or append the material if there are no placeholders. Reading time excludes doing the exercise.

Draft a handover covering content updates, renewals, incidents and rule changes without inventing response commitments.

What to look for (not a recorded test result)

Assign owners, a handoff route and retesting. Fill ownership gaps rather than assuming lifetime developer responsibility.

If it goes wrong

If maintenance is vaguely included, clarify scope, duration and out-of-scope charges.

Check your result

You know who handles problems and how to recover necessary data on exit.

References and scope

The links below support the concepts or product navigation. The steps and exercises are our teaching suggestions, not official certification or measured customer outcomes. Product interfaces and availability may change. References checked on 2026-10-17.

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