Book · 103 pages
AI Is the Easy Part. Your Foundation Isn’t.
What enterprise deployment actually requires
Most enterprise AI does not fail because the model is not good enough. It fails because it was deployed into a system that could not carry it — data it cannot reach, processes nobody redesigned, and governance that arrives after the fact.
This book is about the part nobody sells you: the architecture, the foundations and the operating discipline that decide whether a working prototype ever becomes something a business runs on.
Three parts, eight chapters. Part One is why the failures are structural rather than technical. Part Two is the road from pilot to production. Part Three is governance, authority and what the market is doing next.
The full text is free to read online, with no email required. The PDF is the same book in a form you can keep.
What's inside
- The 59% problem: why architectural, infrastructure and organisational failures look identical from the outside
- AI in the data, code in the process — the distinction most tool-first architectures get backwards
- Knowledge bases: the five-question test, and when similarity retrieval hits its ceiling
- The road from pilot to production, and the foundations that decide whether you arrive
- Authority, control and compliance inside the EU AI Act window