The last mile of AI: Closing the gap between insight and action
THE SO WHAT
The bottleneck isn’t model intelligence, it’s wiring outputs into systems that actually move money, inventory, or approvals. If your AI program is stuck at dashboards and copilots, pick one workflow this quarter where the model can trigger a real transaction under human-over-the-loop review and measure that, not “insights generated.”
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