Why Enterprise AI Fails Before the Model Even Matters

Every incoming purchase order had to be read by a person. Someone had to open the document, understand the structure, extract the data, key it into the system, check the output, and keep the order moving. Nothing about that work looked strategic. It was quiet, repetitive, and easy to ignore because the business had learned to live with it. But the entire operation depended on it, and as volume grew, the weakness became impossible to hide. More orders meant more people, more manual reading,...