A CoE should speed teams up, not add paperwork. Here's the lightweight model we recommend to growing companies.
Many companies now have a dozen AI experiments and no way of knowing which ones work. A Centre of Excellence brings order — if it is designed to enable rather than to gatekeep.
Four responsibilities
- Standards: approved models, data-handling rules and evaluation methods.
- Accelerators: reusable RAG pipelines, prompt libraries and UI components.
- Enablement: training so every team can build safely on its own.
- Portfolio: a shared view of what's live, what's piloting and what was stopped.
Measure a CoE by how many good ideas reach production — not by how many documents it writes.