Enterprise AI Pilots Feel Useless? Try the "Switch-Off Test"
kashifmanzoor · x · 2026-08-24
An enterprise AI practitioner highlights a common issue: companies run multiple AI pilots, yet nothing changes operationally. He proposes a "switch-off test": if a project vanished tomorrow, who would complain?
- A named person complains within a day: You have a real deployment. Protect and scale it.
- The team would notice eventually: It's a convenience, not transformation.
- Nobody notices: It's just a use case. Shut it down before budget reviews do.
The test exposes the reality that while pilots technically work, they often lack visible business impact.
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