LAYER 4 · APPLIED AI · STAGE 4

Guardrails for FDEs

Quick answer

Checks that keep an AI system inside safe, allowed behaviour. Customers in finance, health and government will ask what stops a bad answer.

Practise it

  1. 1. Validate model output against a schema
  2. 2. Block personal data in prompts and logs
  3. 3. Define when the system must hand off to a human

Where it sits

Stage 4 of the roadmap: Applied AI. You can build an LLM feature on private data and prove it works.

Field problems

Build an eval harness for a refund-approval agent [ HARD ]

Portfolio projects

CRM lead-enrichment agentSupport ticket triage with human reviewMulti-agent workflow for finance ops

Field packs

P3: Ship an agent with guardrails