How to Run an AI Code Review POC: A Step-by-Step Walkthrough
An AI code review POC is where vendor claims meet your actual codebase, workflows, and constraints. This chapter covers how to prepare the evaluation, what to watch during the trial, and how to turn the results into a clear go/no-go decision.
Key Takeaway
A successful AI code review POC de-risks the entire purchase: it gives you proof the tool works on your code, buy-in from the developers who’ll live with it, and a business case that survives procurement scrutiny. Getting there is a five-stage process, and the stages before the trial matter as much as the trial itself: assess whether your organization is ready, map the tool to your existing stack, clear the security gate, then run a structured three-week evaluation against criteria you defined on day one. Teams that skip the first two stages run “black-box” trials that fail the overwhelming majority of the time. Not because the tool...
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