The Real Reason AI Projects Fail: It's Not the Technology

I've been watching AI projects fail for three years now. Not because the models aren't good enough. Not because the data is bad. Because nobody figured out how to integrate AI into actual workflows. The technology has never been the bottleneck. The bottleneck is always organizational. Here's what I keep seeing: AI doesn't fail. Organizations fail at AI. A company builds a sophisticated RAG system. The legal team doesn't trust the outputs. The sales team isn't trained on when to use it. The data team built for yesterday's processes, not tomorrow's. The AI works perfectly. Nobody uses it.