Calculate and justify a first-run cap for a high-impact automation.
A collections automation can send payment-plan notices to 9,600 customers. A wrong notice would require apology, account correction, and support review. Support can repair about 240 affected accounts in one business day. Set the first-run blast-radius cap to the smaller of evidence need, repair capacity, and acceptable customer exposure. The common shortcut is to choose a round pilot number because it feels small, without checking whether the team can actually repair that many affected customers. Name the unit of harm Use affected customers, not messages sent or automation tasks completed, because the customer is who experiences the failure. FMEA starts…
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