84% of companies have AI pilots that never reach deployment. Here's what's keeping them locked in limbo.
Most companies don't have an AI ambition problem. If anything, it's the opposite. Give executives a new AI demo, and they'll find 47 potential use cases before lunch.
Key Takeaways
- 84% of companies have at least one AI pilot that never made it to production.
Corporate leaders share what keeps pilots stuck in testing and why others succeed.
- More than a quarter of organizations (28%) have run over 100 AI pilots, yet only 13% have broadly deployed those projects across their business.
This limbo between testing and an actual launch date is where many pilots go to die.
- Among pilots that did eventually reach production, 39% spent between four and 12-plus months in the evaluation phase before going live.
In industries where speed matters, that timeline is hard to justify.
- Put a dedicated team on it, and pilots ship in weeks.
Hand it to whoever raised their hand in the meeting, and you're looking at months-if it ships at all.
- A lot of roadblocks to launching AI pilots are human-focused.
Stats & Key Facts
- #According to AI spending data, 86% of companies plan to increase their investment over the next 12 months.
- #More than a quarter of organizations (28%) have run over 100 AI pilots, yet only 13% have broadly deployed 84% of companies have at least one AI pilot that never made it to production.
- #According to AI spending data , 86% of companies plan to increase their investment over the next 12 months.
- #More than a quarter of organizations (28%) have run over 100 AI pilots, yet only 13% have broadly deployed those projects across their business.
84% of companies have at least one AI pilot that never made it to production. Corporate leaders share what keeps pilots stuck in testing and why others succeed. See how Zapier helps you manage, secure, and scale automation across your organization.
Three phases to move from disconnected AI pilots to orchestrated systems that scale. Most companies don't have an AI ambition problem. If anything, it's the opposite.
Give executives a new AI demo, and they'll find 47 potential use cases before lunch. Companies are spinning up pilots by the dozen, and that appetite is only growing. According to AI spending data , 86% of companies plan to increase their investment over the next 12 months.
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