Most AI failures have nothing to do with the model, the vendor, or the technology.

According to MIT, Gartner, and McKinsey, 70%+ of AI initiatives fail because the operational environment wasn’t built for intelligence.

In this episode, Alex and Jamie break down the systemic gap founders miss:

• Why workflows collapse the moment AI touches real operations

• The five hidden patterns that sabotage intelligent execution

• Why traditional flowcharts can’t support agentic systems

• How coordination debt kills throughput

• The state-machine model that actually works in the real world

• A practical 5-step framework leaders can deploy immediately

If your AI pilots succeed but full rollout falls apart, this episode exposes the operational truth underneath the failure, and the architecture that finally makes AI scalable.

Visibility → Coherence → Coordination → Intelligence.

This is how execution moves from fragile to resilient.