Your AI Investments Are Probably Returning 20 Cents on the Dollar

And the reason has nothing to do with which model you picked.

I’ve sat through dozens of board meetings where executives proudly presented their AI initiatives. The slide decks all look similar: logos of enterprise AI vendors, pilot program metrics, vague promises about “transformation.”

Then I ask one question and the room gets quiet.

“Is the AI actually doing the work? Or is it just writing instructions for your e…