Introduction: Why CEOs Reject Most AI Roadmaps
Most AI strategies sound right until they reach the boardroom.
They’re full of pilots, projections, and proof-of-concepts. But when a CEO asks, “What does this change for the business?”, the room goes quiet.
That’s the real gap: not capability, but conviction.
Executives don’t reject AI because they doubt the technology; they reject it because they can’t see the structure behind it; how it scales, governs itself, or pays off beyond a prototype.