Your AI Pilot Worked. Now What? Why Enterprise AI Dies Before Production

About this episode

Omid Pakseresht discusses the challenges organizations face in moving AI projects from pilot to production and the impact of governance on these initiatives.

Most organizations have done an AI pilot. Many have done ten. Remarkably few have something running in production that actually changes how work gets done. Omid Pakseresht, founder and CEO of GOODFOLIO, breaks down the pilot-to-production gap, why governance kills more AI projects than bad technology, and what it actually takes to build AI systems that work inside real enterprise workflows.

People in this episode

Host: Robin Ayoub

Guest: Omid Pakseresht

Topics covered

• AI pilot
• enterprise AI
• production gap
• governance
• AI systems
• workflows

Keywords

• AI pilot
• enterprise AI
• production
• governance
• AI projects
• workflows
• technology

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: GOODFOLIO

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