"AI can automate your business."
"AI will 10x your productivity."
"There's this new tool you can just plug in, works out of the box."
Yeah... You've probably heard it all before.
Newsflash: most of the time, it doesn't work.
Not because the AI or the tech is broken... but because the business wasn't ready for it.
The companies getting the biggest AI returns aren't the ones with the most AI projects.
They're the ones with the fewest.
While everyone else is trying to "AI-transform" their entire business, smart companies are using the 80/20 rule to identify the single process that's causing 80% of their operational pain, and solving just that one problem first.
The result? They're seeing 10x better ROI because they're going deep instead of wide.
Only 1 in 5 AI projects make it to production.
You've seen the pitch deck.
AI will automate your operations, cut costs by 40%, give you superhuman insights, and transform your business overnight.
So you hire consultants, build a proof of concept, and the demo works perfectly.
Then you try to deploy it in production. Everything breaks.