The AI Readiness Gap
72% of companies are adopting AI. Only 26% are scaling it. The gap is not technology. It is architecture.
McKinsey’s 2024 State of AI: 72% of companies are adopting AI tools. Only 26% are scaling them beyond pilots.
The gap is not budget. It is not talent. It is architecture. Most organisations bolt AI onto existing systems like fitting a jet engine to a bicycle. The engine works. The bicycle disintegrates.
Readiness means governance frameworks, data pipelines, feedback loops, and humans who know when not to trust the output. Without that infrastructure, every AI deployment is a controlled experiment pretending to be production.
Your competitors are not ahead because they adopted first. They are ahead because they built the foundation before installing the engine.