How should a buyer choose the scope of a first review pilot?

Start by naming the responsibility the agent should carry. Preparing an evidence bundle, recommending an outcome and executing an approved decision are different responsibilities, even when they sit within the same review process.

A useful first pilot can centre on one of those responsibilities and describe its inputs, permitted actions and required outputs. For an account review assistant, the scope might end when it submits a supported recommendation to an authorised reviewer. The human decision would then be an external input rather than an action the agent performs.

Specify what the pilot is intended to reveal. Evidence preparation tests retrieval and relevance; recommendation tests judgement against supplied rules; execution tests operational follow-through. Combining them without separate acceptance criteria makes failures harder to interpret.

A buyer can ask MirrorFirm to propose generated cases around the selected responsibility and its most consequential boundary conditions. Expansion can follow once the buyer understands which behaviour the pilot measures. A narrow pilot can support a clear engineering decision, but it should not be presented as validation of every responsibility in the wider workflow.