POC-to-Production Rescue
Your AI pilot impressed everyone and then stalled. A focused engagement to diagnose why it's stuck and get it across the line to dependable production — or to an honest go/no-go, fast, before it drains more time and goodwill.
Why AI pilots stall
It's almost never the model. Pilots die of ambiguity: success was never defined, the bar quietly moved, it ran on tidy data that doesn't represent the real workload, no one owns the day after it passes, or the trial just... never ends. The result is a "promising but inconclusive" limbo that burns time and credibility.
What the rescue does
- Diagnose — find the real reason it's stuck (criteria, data, evaluation, cost, trust, or ownership).
- Re-scope — set the production success criteria that should have been agreed up front: task, bar, sign-off, day-after.
- Fix the crux — the specific blocker between the pilot and production, on real data.
- Prove or call it — reach a defensible result against the bar — a clear win to ship, or an honest go/no-go so you stop sinking cost.
What you get
- A clear diagnosis of why the pilot stalled, in writing.
- Agreed production success criteria and a path to them.
- Either a shippable, proven result — or a confident, evidence-backed decision to stop.
Scoped to the outcome. Often the fastest, highest-leverage way to unblock an AI investment that's gone quiet.
Who it's for
Teams with a funded AI pilot that's drifted past its deadline, and leaders who need a straight answer on whether it can ship. Backed by real production delivery across regulated and high-throughput environments — see the case studies — and the method in the AI-Era Technical Sales and AI Forward Deployed Engineer series.
What colleagues and clients say
“He's a strong Go developer — the kind who thinks carefully about package boundaries and concurrency before writing the first line. […] If you need someone to build backend systems that hold up in production, I'd recommend Pratik without hesitation.”— Shon Phand, Platform Engineer at THG, from my LinkedIn recommendations
“Pratik possesses a rare combination of technical mastery and client-facing finesse, making him an exceptional techno-commercial professional.”— Priya Pahuja Nair, Consulting Manager, from my LinkedIn recommendations