Human Oversight Reliance Review is a platform-neutral method for assessing what an organisation can rely on human oversight to accomplish under specified operating conditions. It addresses the gap between assigning a human role and establishing that relevant cases reach qualified people, intervention can take effect in time, and shared capabilities can meet competing commitments.

Six steps — Define, Trace, Examine, Reconcile, Decide and Revisit — take a specified oversight function from its requirements through evidence assessment to a separately recorded operating decision. Bounded claims are examined against supporting and challenging evidence. The review covers selection and information preparation before the human decision, and execution and consequences after it. It examines whether commitments can be fulfilled together across shared expertise, information, intervention routes and external providers. Replacement arrangements and proposed remedies face the same scrutiny, including their effects on other work and people affected by action or delay.

Findings remain distinct from operating authorisation: permission to operate is not evidence that oversight performs as intended, and a planned improvement is not a capability available now. Material changes prompt reassessment of affected claims and decisions. Handovers carry unresolved concerns, relevant evidence, responsibility and the remaining time to act.

The output is an evidence-linked account, rather than an aggregate score, of what oversight can support, what remains unresolved, what is permitted now and which conditions require a renewed decision. The guide, editable records, two synthetic worked examples and practice checks support application through the supplied workbook or existing organisational systems. Across design, deployment and continuing operation, including agentic workflows, the method supports decisions to retain, restrict or redesign AI use.
