Moving AI from Pilots to ROI with FICO CIO Mike Trkay

Moving AI from Pilots to ROI with FICO CIO Mike Trkay

January 28, 2026 · 28 min · Season 1 · Episode 62

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Mike Trkay discusses how FICO is transitioning AI from pilot projects to production with a focus on ROI and governance.

On the 62nd episode of Enterprise AI Innovators, hosts Evan Reiser (CEO and co-founder, Abnormal AI) and Saam Motamedi (Greylock Partners) talk with Mike Trkay, CIO at FICO. Mike explains how FICO is moving AI from pilots to production by prioritizing ROI, data foundations, and governance. He argues for sanctioned LLM access to curb leakage, system integration for business-wide answers, and smaller domain models when accuracy, compliance, and trust matter. Quick hits from Mike: On the shift f...

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