How to Run an AI Audit: Finding Where AI Actually Moves the Needle in Your Business

Every week, another AI vendor promises to transform your business. Every week, another company buys a tool, runs a pilot, and watches it quietly fail. MIT measured this pattern across 300+ enterprise deployments and found that 95% of generative AI pilots deliver zero measurable P&L impact. RAND Corporation puts the broader AI project failure rate at 80.3% - double the failure rate of non-AI IT projects. The root cause, in most cases, isn't bad technology. It's that companies skip the most important step: figuring out where AI will actually help before buying anything.