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The AI Grifter Test — Five Red Flags Before You Sign That Proposal
95% of enterprise generative AI pilots deliver zero measurable return. The average large enterprise abandoned 2.3 AI initiatives last year, with $7.2M in average sunk cost per abandoned project. Those numbers come from MIT Project NANDA and S&P Global. They are not paranoia. They are the data.
This is an opinion episode. Stephen Forte names what he is seeing in the field directly: the AI transformation market has a grifter problem. Not all of it. Not even most of it. But enough that every CEO needs a framework before they sign the next proposal that lands in their inbox.
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