Why Enterprise AI Pilots Fail: From PoC to Production

We built an AI anomaly detector that worked perfectly—until 89% of users disabled it on first login. The problem wasn't accuracy. It was inserting sophisticated prediction into a workflow that never needed it. Here's why most enterprise AI pilots never escape the PoC phase. Full article: https://davidohnstad.net/enterprise-ai-pilots-proof-of-concept-failure/

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Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
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2026-11-02
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https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.23892703
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Artificial Intelligence Applications
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Why Enterprise AI Pilots Fail: From PoC to Production

David Ohnstad
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Why Enterprise AI Pilots Fail: From PoC to Production

David Ohnstad
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Abstract

We built an AI anomaly detector that worked perfectly—until 89% of users disabled it on first login. The problem wasn't accuracy. It was inserting sophisticated prediction into a workflow that never needed it. Here's why most enterprise AI pilots never escape the PoC phase. Full article: https://davidohnstad.net/enterprise-ai-pilots-proof-of-concept-failure/

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