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Florida just handed a politically connected AI firm millions in government contracts. Sound familiar? Vendors with the right relationships — not the right results. You've probably lived a smaller ve
Florida just handed a politically connected AI firm millions in government contracts.
Sound familiar? Vendors with the right relationships — not the right results.
You've probably lived a smaller version of this. The AI tool your team never opened. The consultant who vanished after the invoice cleared. That quiet frustration of knowing you made a smart decision that somehow still didn't work.
You're not tech-stupid. You got sold something that wasn't built for your actual problem.
Here's what the Florida story reveals: even sophisticated government buyers get it wrong when they prioritize relationships over fit. The Palantir-connected firm won on access, not outcomes. That's the AI industry's dirty secret — most vendors are selling access to technology, not solutions to your specific problem.
The difference matters enormously for your budget and your team's trust.
Before your next AI conversation, write down one business problem that costs you real time or money every week. One. Then ask any vendor to show you — live, not in a deck — how their tool solves exactly that problem. If they can't demo it on your use case in 30 minutes, walk away.
That single filter has saved my clients more wasted spend than any evaluation framework I've seen.
What's the AI purchase you regret most — the tool, the consultant, or both?
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Before starting Peregrine, Noone was an executive at Palantir, an AI company that provides similar data integration platforms for federal intelligence ...
