Slide 5 Detail: Why Now

ASF is timely because three pressures are converging: AI adoption, growing compliance expectations, and limited expert engineering capacity.

Main Point

Regulated engineering teams are ready to evaluate AI, but only if the adoption path protects review quality, traceability, and accountability.

Timing Drivers

• RAG and agent workflows make AI assistance more useful for project-specific work.
• ISO 26262, ISO/SAE 21434, CRA, and AI governance increase evidence expectations.
• Expert safety and cybersecurity reviewers are scarce and expensive.
• Legacy document-heavy workflows struggle to keep evidence current.

Pilot Relevance

The pilot should show that ASF can introduce AI safely into existing engineering workflows rather than forcing teams to trust uncontrolled outputs.

Related: Market Assessment, AI Act Readiness.