The gap between an AI demo and a production system is where most projects quietly die.
It's not a model problem. It is a data, trust, cost, and repeatability problem.
Agencies have schema drift, undocumented handling rules, approval chains that exist only in someone's head, and pipelines built for a source that changed six months ago.
The AI sits on top of all of that and gets blamed when it fails.
Our CTO Brian Frutchey will be on stage at the GovCIO Media & Research Federal AI Forum on August 13 in Reston, VA talking about exactly this.
His session is a lightning round with federal AI leaders sharing what is actually working as agencies move from early experiments into real operations.
What breaks at scale. What governance gaps surface late. What the teams that ship have in common.
If you’re working on AI adoption inside a federal agency (or supporting one), this is the room for the honest conversations.