The AI Was the Cheap Part.
Before you approve the AI budget, check what it leaves out. The real cost of AI is everything you build around the model. Here is how to find it.
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The App Store for AI Just Opened. Your Infrastructure Isn’t Ready for It.
For two years the AI market was a bake-off over whose app was smarter. A quiet standard called MCP just changed the question entirely from “which AI app should I buy?” to “can my business…
Your Enterprise Playbook Is Why Your AI Project Failed
I spent 20 years running technology at IBM and Kyndryl leading 200+ engineers, governance boards, phased rollouts, the whole apparatus. That same enterprise playbook is quietly strangling AI projects right now. Not because the discipline…
Your AI Vendor Is Hoping You Don’t Ask About Security
I’ve sat in a lot of vendor demos. The slides are beautiful, the demo runs flawlessly, and nobody says a word about where your data goes or who can read it. That silence isn’t an…
Your AI Pilot Worked. That’s Exactly Why It’ll Fail in Production.
The most dangerous sentence in AI right now is “the pilot was a success.” A failed pilot tells you the truth while the check is small. A successful one tells you a flattering lie—that the…
Uber Burned Its Entire 2026 AI Budget in Four Months. The Real Lesson Isn’t About Money.
In April, Uber admitted it spent its full 2026 AI budget in four months — and its own COO couldn’t connect the spend to customer value. The easy read is “AI is expensive.” That read…
What AI-Ready Infrastructure Actually Costs to Build
A client wanted one number for getting “AI-ready” before our call ended. Three vendors had already given him one — and that’s exactly the problem. The number you’re quoted is almost always the model, the…
7 Questions to Answer Before You Start Shopping for AI
Before you sit through a single AI vendor demo, answer these 7 questions. A field-tested readiness checklist from 20+ years of enterprise AI work.
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