Advisory work creates clarity; it does not replace ownership. The teams that benefit most assign an internal technical lead who can accept or reject recommendations.
Define decision rights up front: who chooses the model path, who owns on-call for the new path, and who can pause a rollout when quality dips.
Ask advisors for artifacts your team can maintain—checklists, interface sketches, evaluation seeds—not slide decks that age out after one steering meeting.
When implementation starts, keep advisors in a review role with fixed checkpoints. Continuous pair-building without clear ownership often blurs accountability when incidents appear.