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42% of Companies Abandoned Their AI Projects in 2025. The Remaining 58% Mostly Have Nothing in Production Either.

S&P Global surveyed 1,006 enterprises. MIT NANDA reviewed 300 AI deployments. RAND analysed 65 data scientists. They all found the same thing. Here is what the data actually says — and why most people are reading it too charitably.

S&P Global · MIT NANDA · RAND · McKinsey
8 min

Accenture Will Set Up Your GCC. Nobody Will Tell You What to Do With It.

2,100+ GCCs now operating in India. 62% of organisations plan to use theirs as an AI hub (Accenture's own data). Most have no production AI system. The gap between GCC setup and AI delivery that nobody is naming.

KAS Business Consulting · Accenture · MIT NANDA
7 min

What Is vLLM and Why Does It Matter to Your Gross Margin?

The non-technical explanation of the serving framework that most mid-market ML teams have never deployed — and why its absence is costing you 10–20× on inference throughput. Stanford: inference cost dropped 280-fold. Most companies captured none of it.

Stanford HAI · Epoch AI · 2025
COMING MAY 11
6 min

What a Clean AI Stack Is Worth at Exit: How Acquirers Evaluate It

The due diligence question most PE portcos cannot answer. RAND: 80%+ of AI projects fail — twice the rate of non-AI IT. The ones that survive become valuation assets. Here is how the conversation goes in the data room.

RAND Corporation · McKinsey · 2025
COMING MAY 4
6 min

The Inference Economics Primer: Everything You Need to Know About AI Compute Costs

The reference post. Token costs, GPU utilisation, batching, quantisation, model right-sizing — all explained for the person who signs the infrastructure budget. Every claim sourced. Bookmark this one.

Gartner · Stanford HAI · IDC · Epoch AI
COMING MAY 25
12 min

Why We Built Aevon With an Expiration Date

Most consulting firms are structurally incentivised to make you dependent. We built the opposite. The founding logic behind an implementation partner that is contractually required to leave — and why that changes everything about how we work.

COMING JUNE 8
5 min

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