1. Hope that senior management approves the development budget 2. Try to estimate how much it will cost and whether anyone will actually want the agent — with no clear idea of how much revenue it'll bring or how many people will use it.
So I built a dashboard that lets managers track this process. It shows exactly what a manager wants to see - how much a conversation cost and how it contributed to the user. No, not like LangFuse or LangsSmith. There's also AI-agent-guided wizard on how to define the "value" the agent provides to the customer, and then verify whether the customer actually received it.