I audited an award-winning AI project. The case study left out the cloud bill

I have audited enough celebrated technology rollouts to notice a quiet omission across the industry: nobody talks much about what happens to the unit economics once the pilot ends and the software enters daily production. I have anonymized the company and changed identifying details for confidentiality, but the operating economics and workflow behaviors below are taken directly from the post-implementation audit. About six months ago, I was brought into a mid-sized enterprise to review a document workflow that had recently received an industry innovation award.
The platform vendor published a…
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- richard ewing
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- Thursday, 8 October 2026, 5:30 pm IST
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