Six months into the project, a senior stakeholder asked the question that kills more AI initiatives than anything else: “Can’t we just skip ahead to the good stuff?” Here’s what happened when this manufacturing client said no, stayed the course on the hard infrastructure work nobody puts on a press release, and walked away with 38% faster incident detection, $2M+ in savings, and a team finally free to do the work they were hired for.

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