The publisher owns the research claim and its evidence boundary.
01 / RESEARCH
Research that changes the operating decision.
We read primary sources for the boundary they establish, then translate that evidence into an engineering decision a customer can inspect.
PRIMARY-SOURCE CONTEXT / NOT LIFSYS PERFORMANCE OR ORIGINAL RESEARCH
PRIMARY-SOURCE CONTEXT / NOT LIFSYS PERFORMANCE OR ORIGINAL RESEARCH03 RECORDS / DIRECT SOURCES
Why AI projects fail
RAND reports that, by some estimates, more than 80 percent of AI projects fail.
BUSINESS RELEVANCE
A prototype can work in isolation and still fail when it solves the wrong problem or cannot enter the real workflow.
>80%ESTIMATED AI PROJECT FAILURE RATEESTIMATE CITED BY RAND
STUDY FRAME65
EXPERIENCED DATA SCIENTISTS + ENGINEERS
- INDUSTRY INTERVIEWS
- 50
- ACADEMIC INTERVIEWS
- 15
FIVE LEADING ROOT CAUSESUNRANKED
WRONG PROBLEM OR WORKFLOW
INSUFFICIENT DATA
TECHNOLOGY BEFORE PROBLEM
INSUFFICIENT INFRASTRUCTURE
PROBLEM BEYOND AI LIMITS
Adoption is not scale
Eurostat reports that 20.0 percent of EU enterprises used AI technologies in 2025, up from 13.5 percent in 2024.
BUSINESS RELEVANCE
Buyers need to distinguish access to AI from a system that changes a governed business process.
TIME SERIESSCALE / 0–20%
20217.7%
20238.1%
202413.5%
202520.0%
2025 TECHNOLOGY SHARESSCALE / 0–12%
WRITTEN-LANGUAGE ANALYSIS
11.8%GENERATED PICTURES / VIDEO / AUDIONEW IN 2025 QUESTIONNAIRE
9.5%GENERATED LANGUAGE OR CODE
8.8%SPEECH TO MACHINE-READABLE
7.2%From pilots to scaled work
MIT CISR reports that the greatest financial impact appears when enterprises progress from building pilots and capabilities to developing scaled AI ways of working.
BUSINESS RELEVANCE
The business decision is whether to invest in an operating system for reuse, not whether to fund another isolated demonstration.
2025 REAL-TIME BUSINESS SURVEYN=152DISTRIBUTION / NOT CAUSAL PROOF
STAGE 01EXPERIMENT AND PREPARE
202228%
202513%
STAGE 02BUILD PILOTS AND CAPABILITIES
202234%
202523%
STAGE 2→STAGE 3
STAGE 03DEVELOP AI WAYS OF WORKING
202231%
202546%
STAGE 04BECOME AI FUTURE READY
20227%
202518%
05 / APPLY THE EVIDENCE
Turn a finding into the next engineering decision.
The first session identifies the operating result, evidence boundary, and one observable artifact. It does not guarantee an implementation or outcome.
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