Delzey Blog
Notes from the field
On getting enterprise AI out of pilot purgatory and into the P&L. No slideware.
Agents Need Data — The Missing Access Layer Between Your AI Agents and the Enterprise Systems They Need to Reach
Your tier model is published, but agents have nothing to connect to. Why direct database access fails, and how a thin, governed access layer fixes it.
The Hackathon-to-Production Gap — A Paved Road for the AI Agents Your Business Units Already Built
Business units built AI agents at a hackathon. Now they're stalled at IT. Why the fix is a paved road: tiered access, published SLAs, and real dates.
Kill More AI Pilots. Seriously.
Gartner says 40% of agentic AI projects will be canceled by 2027. Good. Killing pilots early and on purpose is how winners fund what ships.
AI Governance Stopped Being Optional — TRAIGA, Colorado ADMT, and the EU Clock
Texas TRAIGA is in force, Colorado's ADMT law lands January 2027, EU dates are set. Why NIST AI RMF is the safe-harbor move that survives it all.
Do You Need a Chief AI Officer?
76% of organizations now have a Chief AI Officer, up from 26% a year ago. When the role earns full-time headcount, when fractional wins, how to decide.
AI ROI — If You Didn't Baseline It, It Didn't Happen
95% of AI pilots can't prove ROI, mostly because nobody measured anything first. A simple baseline discipline that makes AI value undeniable.
Everyone Has AI Agents. Almost Nobody Has Them in Production.
Most enterprises have adopted AI agents. Few run one in production — and Gartner expects 40% of agentic projects canceled by 2027. Mind the gap.
Your AI Advisor Is Selling You Their Stack
Model vendors run consulting arms, clouds embed free engineers, the Big 4 rent you agents. Everyone advising enterprises now has inventory to move.
Pilot Purgatory — Why Your AI Demos Never Ship, and How to Escape
Your AI demos impress everyone and ship nothing. Why pilots stall between demo and production — and the triage that gets one live in 90 days.
What Is AI Transformation, Really — and What Do Enterprises Actually Get?
AI transformation is not a tool rollout. A working definition, the four layers that make it real, and how to tell the genuine article from theater.
5 Mistakes Enterprises Make With AI (We See Them Weekly)
Five AI mistakes we see in enterprise portfolios every week — unowned pilots, vendor-written strategy, governance procrastination — and the fix for each.
Why 95% of AI Pilots Fail — and What the 5% Do Differently
MIT found 95% of enterprise GenAI pilots deliver zero P&L impact. The failure is organizational, not technical — here's what the other 5% do.