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Even the Pentagon got burned picking the wrong AI vendor. They locked in with a handful of top providers — then had to scramble when one relationship fell apart. Now they're diversifying, hedging the
Even the Pentagon got burned picking the wrong AI vendor.
They locked in with a handful of top providers — then had to scramble when one relationship fell apart. Now they're diversifying, hedging their bets, and opening the door to smaller players they overlooked before.
Sound familiar?
You're not alone in this. Smart people, big budgets, real pressure to get it right — and still ending up with a tool that doesn't deliver. The $200/month subscription collecting dust isn't a failure of intelligence. It's a failure of fit.
Here's the insight worth taking from this: even sophisticated organizations don't pick one AI tool and bet everything on it. They identify specific problems first, then match tools to those problems. Not the other way around.
That's the mistake most business owners make — they buy a platform, then go looking for ways to justify it.
Flip that sequence. Pick one repetitive task costing you 3-5 hours a week. Find the simplest tool that handles exactly that. Measure the time saved in 30 days. That's your first real win — and it costs almost nothing to test.
What's one task in your business that still runs on copy-paste and manual effort?
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Still, the falling out reinforced the need to diversify the supply of AI tools for the military, opening new opportunities for small defense industry ...
