The 5 principles for AI that ships to production: 1. Audit first: map the actual workflow before touching a model. Find the conformance gap. Separate repeatable patterns from genuine judgment. 2. Deterministic by default: LLM only where judgment lives. Code everywhere else. Most production architecture is testable with unit tests. 3. One orchestration layer: shared ingestion, approvals, audit logging, knowledge. Each new agent lands as configuration on the platform. 4. Model-agnostic: build…