The 95% Problem: Why Enterprise AI Keeps Failing — and What the 5% Get Right

Ninety-five out of every hundred enterprise AI pilots produce nothing a CFO would sign off on. The reflex is to blame the model — too dumb, too small, the wrong vendor. It almost never is. The thing quietly killing enterprise AI is older and more boring than any model: data nobody organized for machines, and rules nobody ever wrote down. The strangest part of the story is who is losing the fight hardest — the firms whose entire business is selling everyone else the cure. The most expensive irony...