The HARDEN Method™: A Complete Guide to Reliable AI Automation
The HARDEN Method is a practical, end-to-end framework for building AI automations that actually work in production—not just in demos.
The HARDEN Method sequence—Discover → Design → Build → Break → Harden → Launch → Monitor—combines product ownership, engineering discipline, and QA rigor so your workflows deliver measurable outcomes: fewer manual steps, cleaner data, and predictable operations.
You’ll learn how to select the right pilot, design for failure and rollback, implement guardrails (including idempotency, retries, and observability), and demonstrate ROI with KPIs that matter to your operators.
If it can’t survive the Break phase, it doesn’t ship.