💻 Technology & SaaS Now Assist Agentic AI Knowledge AI Governance

Now Assist: Recovering a Stalled AI Pilot

How Ramisun approaches Now Assist enablement for organisations holding AI entitlements that are not yet delivering — diagnosing the real constraint, remediating the foundations, and deploying against measured baselines.

Direct Answer

"What do you do when a Now Assist pilot fails to deliver value?"

When a Now Assist pilot fails to demonstrate value, the constraint is usually data quality rather than model performance. The approach is to run a structured readiness assessment across categorisation, resolution notes, knowledge base health, licensing and release position; remediate the specific gaps found; define AI governance with staged autonomy before any capability goes live; capture measurable baselines; then re-launch against high-volume, low-variance use cases where the outcome can be verified.

The Scenario
Typical Sector
💻 Technology & SaaS
Market
United States
Organisation Size
Enterprise (5,000+ employees)
Engagement Type
Now Assist Enablement
Indicative Timeline
12 weeks to production
Platform Scope
ServiceNow ITSM Pro Plus

The scenario: paying for AI capability that cannot be shown to work

A pattern seen across the market. An organisation purchases Now Assist entitlements during a platform renewal, runs a pilot focused on incident summarisation, and finds that agents do not use the output and handling time does not move. Sponsorship fades and the entitlements risk being written off at renewal.

The instinct is to conclude the technology underdelivers. In most environments the models are performing correctly and reflecting the quality of the records beneath them — a very different problem with a very different remedy.

  • Now Assist entitlements purchased but delivering no measurable value
  • Pilot ran for three months with no baseline captured beforehand
  • No AI governance framework — approval and escalation paths undefined
The Problem

The Model Works. The Data Underneath It Does Not.

Generative features summarise what exists and retrieve what is indexed. A pilot on weak data faithfully reports that weakness back.

Degraded

Incidents Uncategorised

A large share of incidents sat in generic categories, leaving the model little reliable signal for similarity or routing.

Degraded

Resolution Notes Unusable

Sampling closed incidents showed a majority with resolution notes too thin to summarise meaningfully.

Baseline

Knowledge Articles Unowned

A significant portion of the knowledge base had no owner and no review in over two years, producing confidently wrong retrieval.

The Solution

How Ramisun Approaches Now Assist Enablement

Each capability is switched on only once the data supporting it can sustain it — foundations first, then staged autonomy.

1

Readiness Assessment

Ran a seven-point readiness assessment covering categorisation, resolution notes, knowledge health, use cases, governance, licensing and release position.

2

Categorisation Remediation

Rationalised the category tree and used Predictive Intelligence to back-fill historical records — ML is well suited to this specific task.

3

Knowledge Base Triage

Retired unowned and duplicate content, assigned owners and review dates to what remained, and restructured for retrieval rather than browsing.

4

Resolution Note Standards

Introduced a minimum closure standard with template prompts, improving note quality within the first quarter.

5

AI Governance Framework

Defined approval gates, logging, escalation paths and data boundaries before any capability went live — recommend, then supervised, then autonomous.

6

Baselined Re-Launch

Captured handling time and deflection baselines, then deployed against high-volume, low-variance use cases with weekly measurement.

Target Outcomes

What This Approach Is Designed to Achieve

No baseline captured
Measured
Value Demonstrable

Value Demonstrable

Handling time and deflection now tracked weekly against a pre-deployment baseline.

Degraded uncategorised
Remediated
Categorisation Coverage

Categorisation Coverage

Historical records back-filled and the category tree rationalised and owned.

No governance
3-stage
Autonomy Ladder

Autonomy Ladder

Recommend → supervised → autonomous, with each stage gated on evidence.

Entitlements at risk
In production
Licence Utilisation

Licence Utilisation

AI capability the business was already paying for is now in daily operational use.

AI licences not delivering yet?

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