Why AI pilots fail at even the best companies: process mapping, baselines
vasuman · x · 2026-10-07
The author ranks the most common reasons AI pilots fail, even at top companies:
- Not starting with thorough process mapping (formal SOPs vs. what actually happens across systems)
- Automating a single step instead of the whole process — saving 8 minutes in a 22-day process still leaves 22 days
- Not capturing baseline metrics (list truncated)
Core argument: enterprise AI failures are mostly organizational and process problems, not model problems.
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