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Why AI pilots fail before production
A diagnosis from stalled pilots and the ones we helped unstick. Most failures aren't about the model. They're about evals, ownership, and the absence of a governed handover.
This piece breaks down where AI pilots fail before production. The pattern is consistent: weak evals, unclear ownership, no governed handover into real workflows.
We break this down further into:
- 01Where pilots stall
- 02How eval gaps hide failure
- 03Why governance determines production readiness
- 04What changes actually move systems into production