If you're an executive with deep domain expertise but no ML background, and you're trying to understand if ML will be useful in your space, it can be useful to think of an ML system as a type of factory. In particular, it's a "decision factory".

A question we often get from executives exploring machine learning and AI for their organizations is: "What is the minimum viable ML/AI team?" There are likely many right answers, and some industries have unique constraints. However, in our experience, a minimal-but-effective ML/AI team requires a few specific roles to be filled. In prioritized order, we believe these to be…