Becoming a product-centric business means every AI asset follows one process, from demand to lifecycle management. The AI Design Authority owns a specific, decisive role in it: the technology approval. This page sets out the end-to-end process, the naming conventions, and the roles around it.
One framework covers every variant — however the idea is triggered, whoever builds it, wherever it is published. The steps are constant; the handling differs by trigger and asset type.
Gates sit at Prioritization, Approvals, and Lifecycle review. The Authority owns the technology decision at Approvals.
At Step 4, an asset is approved across four lenses before it can be published. The AI Design Authority is the technology lens — the others sit with content, commercial, and marketplace owners.
The AI Design Authority. Technical soundness, security, and standards compliance — evidenced through our five review gates.
The asset does what it must, with correct application of our methods and frameworks. Owned by the Product Owner.
Commercial value or delivery productivity gain. Owned by the commercial or delivery sponsor.
Licence and terms & conditions cleared for the intended marketplace. Owned by legal / portfolio.
Build feeds the gate. The Authority's five review gates run through Steps 3–4: they produce the technology evidence the Approvals gate needs, so a team that has passed our gates arrives at Approvals already cleared on the technology lens.
| Step | What happens | Owner / criteria |
|---|---|---|
| 1 · Demand | Generate ideas and build a backlog of methods to "assetize". One central backlog in the AI Library, open to all. | Anyone — consultants, leadership, client settings |
| 2 · Prioritization | Decide which methods to fund and who builds. A committee validates and prioritizes ideas. | Criteria: funding, reusability, unique Invent IP, clear demand, business/ROI case, build-vs-buy |
| 3 · Build | Build the AI tool with iterative testing in a team of users. | Builder — AI Factory / Knowledge Factory, central AI team, or assigned resources |
| 4 · Approvals | Test, review and approve for broader use across four lenses before publication. | Technology (Design Authority), Content, Value, Marketplace readiness |
| 5 · Marketplaces | Publish and list the asset in the right place for its audience. | Central AI team — AI Library, Asset Exchange, hyperscaler, or client environment |
| 6 · Realizing Value | Adopt and scale: internal communication and embedding; external marketing and client adoption. | Product Owner, with comms & marketing |
| 7 · Lifecycle Mgt | Review value, currency and technical health. Decommission, send back to Step 2 to update, or to Step 6 for more adoption. | Product Owner, with the Authority on technical currency |
Every AI asset sits in one of four tiers. The lower tiers are how we work; the upper tiers are what we sell. Note: asset tiers describe the asset type — distinct from the risk class that sets review depth.
Baseline productivity and consistency, Invent-wide. Codified methods, skills, prompts on our own instances.
Owner: Delivery / L&D · Bucket: Industrialisation
Encodes one practice's or industry's recurring know-how — domain workflows and agent personas.
Owner: CU / Industry L0/L1 · Bucket: Industrialisation
Sold within an engagement; the IP differentiates and people deliver it. Client-facing UI, marketplace-listed.
Owner: Portfolio + Offer Lead · Bucket: Portfolio
Sold standalone — the product is the offer. Dedicated platform or product, licence or subscription model.
Owner: Incubation / AI Factory · Bucket: Portfolio
Consistent language keeps the process legible. These are the terms the Authority uses across gates and standards.
The raw ingredient — a proprietary method, model, dataset, or content. Ownable and protectable, but inert on its own.
IP packaged for reuse inside delivery — an accelerator, tool, or diagnostic. Makes delivery faster or better; rarely a line item.
An asset commercialized as a standalone thing the client buys — with a roadmap, versioning, and a price independent of any deal.
The Library and the Exchange both live inside Beacon, our single AI portal.
Every codified asset lives in Beacon — Capgemini Invent's single AI portal, where our people go to discover what we have to bring. Beacon has two homes, and the Authority is responsible for the quality of what enters each.
Home to the internal Claude skills our consultants use in delivery. The Authority runs the review: every submitted skill is QA'd and approved against the skill checklist before it is published to the Library for others to use.
The marketplace where our people discover client-ready accelerators and products — the IP-augmented offerings and products we sell to clients or were paid to build. The Authority clears the technology lens before an asset is listed here.
From the Exchange, client-facing assets can also be published outward — onto a hyperscaler marketplace, or straight into a client environment. The AI Library stays internal.
The Authority's two-sided remit. We govern both sides of Beacon: the development and review of internal Claude skills before they enter the AI Library, and the technology approval of client-ready accelerators and products before they list on the Asset Exchange. Same bar for good; different route to it.
Content ownership is decoupled from technical build so assets stay accurate, current, and adopted. Three roles orchestrate content, expertise, and build — and interlock with the Authority.
The content/methodology expert who owns quality and adoption of one asset — not a builder. Reporting line to the Design Authority for gate approvals.
The product-minded leader who prioritizes and coaches across a capability or industry's whole asset portfolio.
The single global orchestrator of the transformation agenda across the community — and a member of the Design Authority.
How this connects to us. Product Owners bring content and requirements; the Authority provides the technology standard and gate approval. The Chief Product Owner Lead sits within the Authority, keeping the process and the standards in step. See Governance for decision rights.
Our review gates deliver the technology approval your asset needs at Step 4. Start early so you arrive cleared.
