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Templates for engineering and AI leaders

Copyable hiring plans, scorecards, RFPs, AI rollout checklists and migration plans, each with a filled-in example and a Markdown or CSV download.

By the Ryz Labs team · Updated October 2026

Free, copyable templates for engineering leaders who are hiring, building or buying. Each page has the template, how to use it, a filled-in example, the mistakes to avoid and a Markdown or CSV download.

Hiring and interviewing

AI engineer hiring plan templateWhich AI roles to hire first, in what order, what each one must prove in interviews, and how to keep AI work moving while the team is still being built.Engineering hiring plan template (2026)A hiring plan that starts from the roadmap, not the org chart: which engineers you need, by when, at what level, at what cost, and who owns each hire.System design interview rubric and scoring templateFor the people running the interview, not taking it: six dimensions to score, what good looks like at each level, and how to turn scores into a decision.Technical interview scorecard template for software engineersA scorecard every interviewer fills in the same way: anchored ratings for each competency, written evidence, a level call and a hire decision rule.

Team structure and onboarding

AI team structure template: roles, pod shape and RACIHow to structure the people who build AI: core roles, a pod shape that ships to production, who owns what in a RACI, and when to centralize or spread AI work.Remote developer onboarding checklist (first 30 days)A checklist that gets a remote engineer from accepted offer to shipping real work: access ready before day one, a first merged PR in the first week, ownership by day 30.Software development team structure template (roles, ratios, org chart)How to structure an engineering team at 5, 15 and 40 engineers: who you need, what each role owns, typical ratios, and an ownership map that prevents gaps.

AI projects

AI implementation roadmap template (first 90 days to 12 months)Turn an AI strategy into dated work: a 90-day plan with gates, a quarterly view for the year, and the owners, metrics, team and budget lines leadership will ask for.AI pilot to production checklistSeven gates between a working AI demo and a production system people rely on, each with an owner, the evidence required and a go or no-go decision.AI project scoping templateOne document that turns an AI idea into a buildable project: the problem, the metric, the data, how quality is tested, who builds it, the milestones and the risks.AI proof of concept (POC) success criteria templateA one-page POC charter that fixes the question, the thresholds and the decision rule before anyone writes code, so the result is a decision, not a debate.AI use case prioritization matrix (scoring template)A weighted scoring matrix for choosing which AI use cases to build first, with a data-readiness gate that stops attractive ideas with no usable data.LLM evaluation rubric template for production AI featuresAnchored grading criteria for LLM outputs, an LLM-as-judge prompt you can adapt, and the calibration steps that make automated scores match expert judgment.

Vendors and sourcing

AI development RFP template (with scoring sheet)An RFP for teams that will build AI, not sell it: what to disclose about your data, how to specify quality and evals, and the questions that expose demo-only vendors.Software development RFP template (with scoring sheet)An RFP written by engineers for engineers: what to tell vendors about your project, what to ask them, and how to score the answers side by side.Software development vendor evaluation scorecardCompare software development partners on the things that predict delivery: the engineers you actually get, how they work with your team, and how they handle risk.Staff augmentation vendor checklist: questions to askThe questions to ask before adding engineers from a staff augmentation partner, what good answers sound like, and the red flags that should end the conversation.

Planning and leadership

30-60-90 day plan for a new CTO or VP of EngineeringWhat a new engineering leader should learn, decide and deliver in the first 90 days, with the questions to ask, the documents to produce and the metrics to baseline.30-60-90 day plan for a new Head of AIA first-90-days plan for the person hired to make AI real: what to inventory, which use cases to pick, which guardrails to set and what to ship by day 90.Build vs buy vs staff decision matrix (template)Four options, not two: build with your team, build with added engineers, buy a product, or hand delivery to a partner. Gates, a weighted matrix and a cost sheet.Engineering capacity planning templateWork out how much your engineering team can really deliver next quarter, after time off, on-call, support and maintenance, and compare it with what the roadmap asks for.Technical due diligence checklist for software investmentsFor investors and acquirers of software companies: what to review, what to ask for in the data room, how to rate each risk, and how to turn findings into a 100-day plan.

Modernization and migration

Data platform migration plan templateFor moves to Snowflake, Databricks or BigQuery: a dependency inventory, waves, validation rules, coexistence with an end date, and cutover sign-off.Mainframe modernization roadmap templateGet off the mainframe in slices: inventory what runs there, capture every interface, pick a path per workload, run old and new side by side, then cut over.

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