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In most companies, generative AI is full of contradictions.

On one hand, 67% of business leaders predict that GenAI will transform their organization in 2025, according to a KPMG survey. On the other, just 36% of executives say their company has a well-defined vision for AI.

The core issue: Nearly 2.5 years after ChatGPT’s introduction, most companies are still stuck in what I call “prototype purgatory.” They’ve bought and attempted to adopt off-the-shelf GenAI tools and developed pet project prototypes. But despite big promises from vendors or demos, they’ve generated little more than incremental value—far from the AI revolution that was promised.

I see this constantly when talking to enterprise execs. They’re frustrated. And the data bears this out, too. Recently at A.Team, we surveyed 250 senior tech leaders responsible for AI initiatives at their companies and found that only 36% of organizations have successfully deployed AI to production. (The majority of respondents came from enterprise companies.) The rest remain caught in an endless cycle of proof of........

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