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Why your AI pilots are not shipping (and what to do about it)

Most AI pilots fail in the same six places, and none of them are technical. Procurement signs the licenses. The CEO names a project lead. A Slack channel appears. Six weeks later, three demos exist on three different stacks, none in production, and the leadership team is not sure who is supposed to push them through. This essay walks through each of the six failure modes, what we have seen work to clear them, and the order to clear them in.