A model is not production-ready because the endpoint works.
The practical questions that expose readiness gaps before a deployment becomes an expensive, slow-moving incident.
A 25-minute field guide to the five maturity stages between a working notebook and a reliable, regulated ML operating system.

The practical questions that expose readiness gaps before a deployment becomes an expensive, slow-moving incident.
A concise way to think about access, auditability, integrity, authentication, and transmission security for inference systems.
Why signals, thresholds, ownership, and escalation paths have to be designed together—not bolted on after launch.
Clear outcomes, named decisions, and a real handover beat an indefinite roadmap when the goal is deployment.
Where the handoff breaks down, what specialist implementation actually solves, and what your internal team should own.
Capturing every event is not the same as being able to answer what happened, when, to which model, and under whose authority.
The fastest way to turn these ideas into a deployment plan is a focused MLOps Readiness Audit.
Most teams are not cleanly “mature” or “immature.” They can be strong in infrastructure and fragile in compliance, or live in production without a repeatable deployment path. This guide makes those gaps visible, without pretending that another accuracy score answers the operational question.
A five-stage path from notebook to self-sustaining operation, with the operating capability each stage adds.
Practical questions for reproducibility, monitoring, controls, and automation—not a status-meeting checklist.
See the smallest capability that moves your particular bottleneck forward, instead of starting another open-ended roadmap.
The model works, but reproducibility and the operating system around it do not exist yet.
The model is live, but the path is manual, undocumented, and dependent on a few people.
CI/CD and health checks exist; model awareness and owned drift thresholds need to catch up.
Controls, auditability, and traceability are designed into the architecture—not added before a review.
Retraining, releases, monitoring, and handover form a deliberate, repeatable operating loop.

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If your team has a model that is “almost ready,” a focused MLOps Readiness Audit turns that uncertainty into an accountable deployment plan.
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