Why Enterprise AI Initiatives Stall at the Data Layer
Most AI projects fail because enterprises built data systems for humans, not agents.
Farah Serrano
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8 stories in Enterprise AI Architecture.
Most AI projects fail because enterprises built data systems for humans, not agents.
Data governance, not algorithms, determines whether enterprise AI actually works in production.
Mesh restructures who owns data; fabric streamlines how to access it across existing systems.
AI agents need data foundations designed for them, not dashboards retrofitted with retrieval layers.
AI agents can't absorb the messy data reality that human analysts navigate by instinct.
Data fragmentation and missing context break enterprise AI, not model quality.