{"id":1200,"date":"2026-05-07T16:11:54","date_gmt":"2026-05-07T06:11:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.reefwing.com.au\/?p=1200"},"modified":"2026-05-07T16:11:55","modified_gmt":"2026-05-07T06:11:55","slug":"why-95-of-ai-deployments-fail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.reefwing.com.au\/?p=1200","title":{"rendered":"Why 95% of AI Deployments Fail"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.reefwing.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/reefwing_A_vast_industrial_amplifier_circuit_rendered_in_tech_c752578c-62e9-4ba2-a077-b5136b0c8195_0.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/www.reefwing.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/reefwing_A_vast_industrial_amplifier_circuit_rendered_in_tech_c752578c-62e9-4ba2-a077-b5136b0c8195_0.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1201\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.reefwing.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/reefwing_A_vast_industrial_amplifier_circuit_rendered_in_tech_c752578c-62e9-4ba2-a077-b5136b0c8195_0.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.reefwing.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/reefwing_A_vast_industrial_amplifier_circuit_rendered_in_tech_c752578c-62e9-4ba2-a077-b5136b0c8195_0-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/www.reefwing.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/reefwing_A_vast_industrial_amplifier_circuit_rendered_in_tech_c752578c-62e9-4ba2-a077-b5136b0c8195_0-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/www.reefwing.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/reefwing_A_vast_industrial_amplifier_circuit_rendered_in_tech_c752578c-62e9-4ba2-a077-b5136b0c8195_0-768x768.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>MIT&#8217;s August 2025 study of 300 enterprise generative AI deployments found that 95% produced no measurable P&amp;L impact. Gartner forecasts that more than 40% of agentic AI projects will be cancelled by 2027. McKinsey&#8217;s State of AI 2025 identifies workflow redesign as the single strongest correlate with EBIT impact, yet only 21% of organisations have redesigned any workflows. The data converges on a structural conclusion: enterprise AI is failing because the operational substrate is inadequate, not because the models are. This episode examines the process-readiness gap, the misallocation pattern that concentrates investment in low-ROI front-office applications, and what the 5% of high performers do differently. It is an architectural argument, not a change-management one: AI is a linear amplifier acting on a pre-existing process, and the sign of the output depends on the sign of the input.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.buzzsprout.com\/2429696\/episodes\/19138851\">Listen to Podcast&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MIT&#8217;s August 2025 study of 300 enterprise generative AI deployments found that 95% produced no measurable P&amp;L impact. Gartner forecasts that more than 40% of agentic AI projects will be cancelled by 2027. McKinsey&#8217;s State of AI 2025 identifies workflow redesign as the single strongest correlate with EBIT impact, yet only 21% of organisations have [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","_wp_convertkit_post_meta":{"form":"-1","landing_page":"0","tag":"0","restrict_content":"0"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[49,45,6],"tags":[69,70],"class_list":{"0":"post-1200","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-ai","7":"category-embedded","8":"category-title-post","9":"tag-embedded-ai","10":"tag-podcast","11":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.reefwing.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1200","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.reefwing.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.reefwing.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.reefwing.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.reefwing.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1200"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.reefwing.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1200\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1202,"href":"https:\/\/www.reefwing.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1200\/revisions\/1202"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.reefwing.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1200"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.reefwing.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1200"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.reefwing.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1200"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}