Adopting AI in Business: Cases, Pilots and Honest Postmortems

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Most AI adoption stories are told by people selling something. This category exists for the version told by people who had to make it work.

Threads cover building the internal case for a tool, pilot design, rollout and training, measuring return honestly, and the change management problem that usually decides whether adoption sticks. The tools are rarely the hard part. The hard part is a team that quietly reverts to the old process after week three.

Cost discussions belong here too. Per-seat pricing that looked reasonable at five users behaves differently at fifty, and the total cost usually includes review time that nobody budgeted for.

Accounts of projects that did not work are especially valuable and in short supply everywhere else. If you ran a pilot that failed, the reasons are worth writing up. See Agents & Automation for the build side and AI & Work / Jobs for the employment questions.

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