What it is
A practical definition
A customer-facing AI scenario depends on response speed and unit economics: the slower and pricier the request, the harder it is to hold service quality at scale.
Example in ecommerce
In search and guided selection, answering accurately is not enough: the answer also has to arrive within the shopper's patience window.
Business impact
Affects conversion, the margin of the scenario and the traffic ceiling you can serve before UX starts to degrade.