The model is rarely the problem: the document set is. The five things it gets wrong, the permissions question with consequences outside the system, and the acceptance test written before the build.
The one-page authority document: scope, thresholds, who signs, the log, and the stop. Two hours to write.
A written acceptance test for an Arabic customer assistant: what goes in the set, what to type, what counts as a pass, and who scores it.
The pilot cost almost nothing. Somebody put a model behind a form, it answered a hundred questions well, and the invoice at the end of the…
The demo worked. Someone wired a model to a spreadsheet of real questions, it answered most of them well, and the room agreed it was ready.…
Four choices taken early, usually quickly, that set the price of everything built after them. What each costs to reverse, and how to tell which one you already have.
Almost every company of any size in Dubai, Abu Dhabi or Sharjah has run an AI pilot. Far fewer have anything running. The failures cluster in four places, and none of them…