Why 95% of AI Pilots Fail for Businesses

MIT’s NANDA project looked at 300 AI deployments and found 95% of enterprise generative-AI pilots delivered no measurable financial return.

The headline got shared everywhere. The finding underneath it barely did: the barriers were organizational, not technological. The models weren’t the problem. The businesses were — no integration between the AI and the processes it was meant to improve, and no one learning from what it produced.

This session walks through what the research found, what it means for a company with ten people rather than ten thousand, and the specific question almost nobody asks before automating something: what should this do when it goes wrong?

Bring one automation you’ve already built. We’ll look at it honestly.

Free.

Hosted by Crystal Dong, CEO of JIDOKA Group.

Source: MIT NANDA, The GenAI Divide: State of AI in Business 2025 — 150 executive interviews, 350+ employee surveys, 300 AI deployments.