Why do pilots stall?
MIT found 95% of enterprise GenAI pilots deliver zero measurable P&L impact. Twelve impressive demos and nothing in production isn't a strategy — it's a science fair.
Essays & tools on enterprise AI
Why 95% of AI pilots fail — and what the 5% do differently.
I'm Burak Galiba. I write about enterprise AI transformation — pilots that stall, production that ships, and governance that stopped being a slide. Views my own.
No pitch. No gate. Twelve essays and a free 20-question score.
01 — What I write about
Three questions I keep coming back to.
Who do you trust when everyone sells?
Model vendors run consulting arms. Cloud providers embed "free" engineers. The Big 4 rent out pre-built agents. Almost everyone advising enterprises has a platform to push.
When did governance become a deadline?
State AI laws are in force, EU AI Act dates are on the calendar, and Gartner expects 40% of agentic projects to be canceled by 2027 — mostly over weak risk controls.
02 — Free tool
How ready is your enterprise for AI, really?
I built a 20-question AI readiness assessment covering pilots, data, talent, and governance. About ten minutes, instant score with a peer benchmark — and no email required to see it. Take it, share it, argue with it.
Anonymous. ~10 minutes. The score stays yours.
03 — About
About Burak.
I work on enterprise AI — the unglamorous middle where pilots either become products or become slideware. This site is where I think in public: field notes on why AI programs ship, stall, or get quietly canceled, and a free diagnostic for anyone who wants to locate their own program on that map.
Everything here is my own view, written on my own time. Nothing is a pitch, and nothing is affiliated with any employer. If an essay is wrong, I'd genuinely like to hear why.
Short bio — copy freely for podcasts and events
Burak Galiba writes about enterprise AI transformation — why pilots stall, what ships to production, and how governance became a deadline. He publishes essays at burakgaliba.com, where he also built a free 20-question AI readiness assessment. Views his own.
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