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Enterprise AI

Enterprise AI is the practice of running AI inside an organization's existing systems, data, and approval chains rather than in a demo. The hard parts are organizational: who owns the data and its access rules, which team absorbs the changed workflow, and how a model reaches a production system of record. Practitioners often treat a working prototype as most of the job. RAND, interviewing 65 practitioners, traces failures first to a misunderstood or miscommunicated problem, not a weak model. Widely quoted pilot-failure rates near 95 percent come from small, contested surveys.

Key terms

data governancepilot-to-production gapchange managementsystem integrationAI risk framework

Where you meet it in the real world

Claims triage at insurers, contact-center summarization and routing, document extraction in banking KYC, supply-chain demand forecasting, internal RAG search over policy and engineering docs