AI Project Diagnostic
Your AI project is going to fail.
Find out why before it does.
The Premortem is a structured diagnostic that scores your project across six critical pillars and tells you the three things to fix first. No fluff. No frameworks deck. Just a verdict.
Built from patterns across 200+ failed AI implementations. The same six failure modes show up every time.
The Six Pillars
Problem Definition
Is there a real business problem?43% of AI projects start without a measurable pain point. They start with 'we should use AI' instead of 'we need to solve X.'
Data Readiness
Can you actually feed the model?The #1 killer. Teams build architecture before confirming their data is accessible, clean, and sufficient. We score quality, governance, and pipeline maturity.
Workflow Integration
Does it live in a demo or in production?A model that doesn't embed in real daily workflows is a science project. We assess where the output goes and what happens when it's wrong.
Build vs Buy
Are you building what already exists?Teams spend 18 months building what they could buy for $2K/month. We evaluate your approach against commercial alternatives and your team's actual capability.
Success Metrics
How will you know it worked?If ROI targets aren't defined before build, they'll be invented after failure to justify the spend. We check for measurable, pre-committed success criteria.
Adoption & Change
Will anyone actually use it?The model works. Nobody trusts it. No one was trained. The PM left. Adoption failure looks different from technical failure but kills just as many projects.
What You Receive
Readiness Score
Composite score out of 30 across all six pillars
Pillar Ratings
Red, yellow, or green for each pillar with diagnosis
Top 3 Fixes
Highest-leverage changes, sequenced by impact
Cost of Inaction
What continuing on the current path will cost you
You already know something is wrong.
This gives you the language and the path forward.
Built by a team that's deployed production AI systems across crypto, fintech, and enterprise — and seen what kills the ones that fail.
25-minute assessment · Report delivered in 24 hours