The demo works. Production doesn't.
- closeToo many pilots, no production. Nobody owns hardening, governance, and the run.
- closeVendor lock-in dressed up as a platform. One model, one cloud, one account manager — and no exit.
- closeHallucinations and PII leakage surface in production because no one wrote guardrails for them in dev.
- closeToken costs explode. There's no caching, no model routing, no budget per workflow.
- closeAudit and compliance teams arrive at launch — and the project gets paused for six months.