Hi. Meet Meridian Bank. The name is fictional, but the challenge is real. Proving to regulators they can meet RTOs when failing over tier 1 services from US East 1 to US East 2. Three tests down and all driven from a single static spreadsheet. Multiple edited versions copied person to person, test to test, with critical recovery lessons buried in yellow cells no one actually reads at 10PM on a Saturday night. Cutover AI turns that static record into a continuous loop. Three features, one core idea. A runbook that learns from its own history. Let's break it down. First, AI Create. You take the legacy documents you already have. Spreadsheets, Word docs, PDFs and write a single paragraph describing your intent. Target RTOs, streams, sequence, regulatory verification steps, attach the file, hit create and half a minute later your runbook is ready. Multiple tasks across four streams. A go/no-go milestone and it even catches that yellow cell planning DNS propagation for thirty minutes instead of ten. Second, the Cutover AI Assistant. Just ask it in plain language to refine and turn the runbook into a reusable DR test template, swapping names for roles, stripping phone numbers, improving and optimizing dependencies. The assistant drafts the edits, but nothing changes until you approve. One click and it applies all the edits in a single batch. Without Cutover AI, the human teams made the same two mistakes skipping failback rehearsal and underestimating DNS time. The data was there but no one acted on it. That brings us to the main building block: agentic asks. These sit right inside your runbook plan. When execution reaches them, instead of waiting on a human operator, the task hands control to an agent. That can be your organization's already approved custom agent pulling live telemetry data into the run, monitoring checks, a change record or reconciliation result, or Cutover's built in AI agent. The same tools as the AI Assistant, proactively reading history, completing steps, and refining templates as the run unfolds. The difference is nobody has to ask. It acts automatically when the run reaches it under the same approvals. And test five is ready to begin. The initial tasks are handled by people, confirming database backups, change windows and the failback rehearsal the prior test skipped. Then we hit task four, a pre failover readiness check powered by an agentic task. Without anyone clicking a button, it triggers automatically, opens the conversation and analyzes all four prior DR exercises from the previous tests. Once you grant session approval for low risk actions, it runs unattended. Its job is to review everything that went before and give the change manager its own view on whether to go, posting a comprehensive briefing right before the go/no-go gate, which tasks overran, which were skipped and why, and what to do differently tonight, citing each test by name. The final decision remains with a human and it's a go. The team completes the failover and once business sign off is complete, the plan hits the second agentic task. Fully automated, it pulls data across all five exercises, compares RTOs versus RTAs, calculates task medians and determines what needs updating in the master template. The proposed changes only happen when a human is in the loop. It batches template updates into a single approval, writes the changelist back to the runbook and closes out the test. Instead of someone spending hours building a post mortem slide deck as part of the evidence, A clean DR test report lands instantly on the runbook homepage. Even better, the template itself has learned. Future failback rehearsals and closeout steps are now automatically scheduled with real world durations. The next test starts off smarter. That is the Cutover AI loop. AI Create builds the runbook, the Cutover AI Assistant shapes the templates, and agentic tasks execute, capture, and feed operational wisdom straight back into the stream. Every DR test makes the next one better. And best of all, every screen you just saw was captured from a live un-staged runbook in Cutover. Thanks for watching.
