The data science team spent six months building a fraud detection model with 96% accuracy on test data.
The board approved a million-dollar investment. Production launch went smoothly with no technical errors.
Three months later, the model catches only 68% of actual fraud cases while flagging legitimate transactions at triple the expected rate.
The data scientists review their…
The CFO walks into the Monday morning meeting holding a printed report. The data warehouse bill jumped from $15,000 to $47,000 last month.
The analytics team scrambles to explain. They review usage logs, check for anomalies, and examine query patterns.
Everything appears normal. Teams are running the same reports, processing similar data volumes, and conducting routine analyses.…
The midnight alert comes in during the company's biggest sales week of the year.
The analytics dashboard shows no data for the past six hours. Customer behavior tracking has stopped.
Revenue reporting is frozen. The data pipeline, which ran flawlessly for months on smaller volumes, has collapsed under the weight of Black Friday traffic.
By morning, critical business…
The boardroom presentation was flawless. The AI model predicted customer churn with 94% accuracy, identified fraud patterns with precision, and promised to save millions annually.
Six months later, the same model sits disabled in production, its predictions so wildly inaccurate that the customer service team stopped trusting its recommendations.
The company joins the 80% of organizations whose…
