You hold a proven concept

Your organization’s leadership made the decision to approve. This engagement protects that decision — with verified readiness behind it, owners in front of it, and no room for the gap between approval and production to hide.

Evidence

This is a known, measured problem.

  • Gartner projected that at least 30% of generative AI projects would be abandoned after proof of concept by the end of 2025 — poor data quality, unclear business value, no path from pilot to production.
  • MIT’s Project NANDA reported that 95% of enterprise generative AI pilots delivered zero measurable return on $30–40 billion invested.
  • McKinsey has found that roughly 70% of large-scale transformation programs fail to achieve their goals.

When to engage

The proof of concept has demonstrated its intended capability and received leadership approval, but production requires coordinated business and technical work. Ownership, dependencies, operating changes or readiness gaps remain unresolved. Proof-of-concept approval provides the starting mandate; production authorization depends on verified readiness.

Scope

What the engagement covers

Verify the approved baseline

A confirmed business outcome, success measures, and an assessment of proof of concept (POC) evidence, limitations and production gaps.

Recommend the deployment path

Prioritized recommendations, options and deployment implications for leadership decisions on scope, funding and risk.

Make business unit work accountable

An integrated delivery plan with accepted owners, deliverables, resource needs, dependencies and cross-unit handoffs.

Establish production readiness

Coordinated business acceptance and review of applicable operational, security, privacy, legal and data requirements.

Coordinate release and ownership

An agreed cutover and recovery approach, stabilization responsibilities and transition to ongoing service ownership.

Verify the approved business result

An agreed measurement approach, assessment of actual outcomes and recommendations for improvement or scale.

How responsibility is shared

spgFix provides the agreed verification, recommendations and execution coordination. Your organization retains business decisions, funding authority, system and data ownership, and specialist approvals. Build, integration, testing and operational work are assigned to agreed internal teams or delivery partners; direct implementation services are included only when expressly scoped.

And throughout:

No access to your systems, accounts, or data. We work only on the materials you hand us.

Engagement boundaries and success

Participating units, deliverables, acceptance criteria, schedule and fees are agreed before work begins. Third-party costs and scope changes are separately agreed. Findings may support proceeding, remediation, a limited release or a hold. Production release and realized business benefits are separate milestones; deployment success and financial returns are not guaranteed. A partner who is precise about what an engagement does not promise is easier to trust about what it does.

How an engagement begins

A working conversation about your approved concept — the outcome leadership approved, the current state, and the units it touches. Deliverables, acceptance criteria, schedule and fees are agreed in writing before any work begins.

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No access to your systems, accounts, or data. We work only on the materials you hand us.