$499 · 90-second report

Your AI project
is going to fail.
Find out why.

The Premortem scores your project across six critical pillars and tells you the three things to fix first. No fluff. No frameworks deck. Just a verdict.

200+
failed AI implementations
patterned to build this
6
failure pillars
we check every time
90s
from assessment
to verdict

Six failure modes.
Always the same six.

Across 200+ implementations, the failure modes never changed. We just got better at measuring them.

01

Problem Definition

43% of AI projects start without a measurable pain point. They start with "we should use AI" instead of "we need to solve X."

02

Data Readiness

The #1 killer. Teams build architecture before confirming their data is accessible, clean, and sufficient. We score quality, governance, and pipeline maturity.

03

Workflow Integration

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.

04

Build vs Buy

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.

05

Success Metrics

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.

06

Adoption & Change

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. Calibrated against 200+ real implementations.

Pillar Ratings

Red, yellow, or green for each pillar with a plain-English diagnosis. Not a traffic light — a readout of where you actually stand.

Top 3 Fixes

Highest-leverage changes, sequenced by impact. Not a list of everything wrong — the three moves that matter most.

Cost of Inaction

What continuing on the current path will cost you. In dollars, time, or organizational credibility — whichever is most relevant.

Sample Report Excerpt
Meridian Health Systems · AI Triage Routing
16/30
Verdict: Pivot
Problem cost identified: $2.1M / year in mis-routes
Problem Definition 4/5
Data Readiness 2/5
Workflow Integration 3/5
Build vs Buy 2/5
Success Metrics 3/5
Adoption & Change 2/5
"Working prototype that nobody trusts enough to use in production. Patient records span three systems (Epic, legacy SQL, scanned PDFs)…"
Top 3 fixes · Cost of inaction estimate · Sequenced action plan Read the full report →

You already know something is wrong.
This gives you the language and the path forward.