Do-it-yourself game plans

Who needs to participate, and what should they deliver?

Frontier Development research deskSection 02 · Page 2 of 15Last updated 26 October 2026

Workstream	Accountable role	Contact or input required	Deliverable
Business task	Product owner	Operations/customer-support owner	Metric dictionary and failure-cost register
Evaluation	AI/ML lead	Domain reviewer independent of training	Split manifest, rubric and locked test procedure
Data	Data owner	Customer-contract owner and security	Inventory, provenance and permitted-use decision
Adaptation	ML engineer	Platform maintainer or managed service	Versioned run configuration and artefacts
Serving	Platform lead	Cloud/inference provider	Load test, rollback and monitoring plan
Commercial/legal	Finance and counsel	Procurement and contracting entity	Cost model, rights schedule and acceptance terms

One person may cover several roles in a small team, but no responsibility should disappear. Keep the final acceptance decision on the buyer’s side.

TRACE THE EVIDENCE

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