Lab

Where narrow and wide models earn their place in a workflow.

Claims, pharmacy and freight. Each lab tests what the models could change for the business and its customers.

For the business
Which routine work can leave the desk, and what errors cost
For customers
Whether answers can come faster without more mistakes
Across industries
Which lessons carry over, and which don't
Illustrated architectural model of routine work: stone blocks move along one open channel past a single purple block, and two blocks sit apart in a separate bay for people.

Labs

  1. Tested ·

    A hundred dots, every set of fresh claims pooled. Violet: paid with no person. Violet ring: asked for documents, not resolved yet. Ink: to a person, not certain enough or over the payment limit. Small grey: must reach a person by rule.

    Claims

    About half of 3,000 fresh claims paid with no person; one wrong decision in the 1,613 decided.

    Declared in advance. An earlier version failed. Synthetic claims, not real use.

    Read the evidence: Claims
  2. Demos ·

    REPORTS PRIOR AUTH (ALL) REFILLS (ALL)

    Twenty dots per demo, over all requests. Violet: settled by code. Struck ring: approved with no person, and wrong. Ring: sent back for an item. Navy: to a person.

    Pharmacy

    Triage caught most serious reports. Prior authorisation approved about four in ten complete requests, none wrong.

    Refills, as built, were not safe to approve alone. Three small demos, not validated.

    Read the evidence: Pharmacy
  3. In progress

    A FIXED RULETHE NARROW MODELTHE WIDE MODELA PERSON

    The narrow model on the status step: measured. The ladder: results pending.

    Freight

    Being built: loads followed from tender to invoice through rules, a narrow model reading carrier messages and a wide model reading documents.

    People keep the exceptions. Results pending.

    See the design: Freight

Predictions written before results. Failures published. Synthetic data unless stated.