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AI Adoption · Featured

Why 85% of AI pilots never make it to production — and what to do about it.

James Mitchell
8 min read
June 2025

The technology works. The proof of concept impresses the board. Then nothing happens. We've seen this pattern in organisation after organisation — and after diagnosing 40+ failed AI rollouts, the cause is almost always the same.

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