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AI enablement past the prototype stage

Pilots are easy. Operating a system your compliance team trusts is hard.

Background

This is a fixture post for the ai-enablement topic. It stands in for real creator content during Phase 1 build.

Three things worth knowing

  1. Cost is never just infrastructure. It is people plus infrastructure plus decisions deferred.
  2. Budgets rarely fail because of the obvious line item. They fail because of a small one that compounds.
  3. The right structure usually exists. It is buried under years of local decisions.

What to do about it

Write the plan. Test it in a small room first. Kill what does not survive ten days of normal operations. Keep what does.

Boring is the feature.

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Jordan Okafor, "AI enablement past the prototype stage", Markwright, 2026-04-12. URL: https://markwright.app/feed/ai-enablement-past-the-prototype-stage

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Product lead focused on AI-enabled workflows in regulated industries.

Writes about product strategy, AI enablement, compliance.

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