Guardrails before you ship an internal copilot

Internal assistants amplify whatever workflow you already have. If routing is fuzzy or sources conflict, automation speeds up the wrong answer.

Before broad rollout: scope permitted sources, define escalation when confidence is low, log prompts and outputs for review, and restrict actions that move money or legal commitments.

Human override stays first-class

Guardrails are not restrictions on models alone—they are boundaries on when automation stops and humans decide.