Editorial archive
Short, decision-grade issues for asset-heavy teams turning AI demos into workflows that survive procurement, safety, and the field.
A budget memo for deciding when an industrial AI pilot has crossed from controlled experiment to production workflow.
Most plant-floor AI pilots do not fail in the model. They fail when nobody owns the exception after the model is wrong.
A field-service memo on choosing the first dispatch workflow to instrument before adding optimization software.
Dispatch AI fails when it optimizes the route but ignores the promise the dispatcher made before the day started.
A memo for teams trying to turn service records, claims notes, and field fixes into product and uptime evidence.
Warranty records are not a claims archive. They are a product signal if someone tags the repeat failure before finance closes the file.
A buyer-side memo on the proof an industrial team should require before an AI pilot becomes a purchased workflow.
Procurement should not buy an AI workflow from a demo. It should buy the evidence that the workflow survives exceptions.