Episode 265August 20, 2026

Hemang Upadhyay: Why Your AI Pilot Will Never See Production

Hemang Upadhyay

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Most AI projects don't fail because the technology is wrong — they fail because nobody agreed on what success looks like before the pilot started. Hemang Upadhyay has spent 16 years watching that pattern repeat, and he's built a framework to stop it.
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• Why Gartner's stat — only…

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Hemang Upadhyay joins Robin Ayoub to unpack why 95% of AI pilots never reach production and what measurable governance actually looks like.

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Hemang Upadhyay on Cross Functional AI Teams That Scale

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Why 95% of AI Projects Fail Before Production with Hemang Upadhyay

Hemang Upadhyay on Operational Performance Metrics for AI

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