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Stop Piloting AI. Make It Your GCC Operating Core

TL;DR

AI pilots that never touch real workflows waste trust. Put one production use case on the critical path, then scale what works.

Stop piloting AI. Put it on the critical path

Most GCC AI programs stall the same way. A demo impresses HQ. A sandbox stays busy. Production work barely changes.

The research wave talks about AI as operating infrastructure, not a side lab. You do not need another slide to act on that.

Pick one workflow that already hurts. Put AI on it for real. Measure the outcome.

Why pilots die

  • No owner with P&L or product authority
  • Data quality too weak for production use
  • Security review starts after the demo, not before
  • Success defined as “people tried the tool,” not “work got better”

Three shifts that work

  1. One production bet. Support deflection, code review assist, or invoice exception handling. Not five half-pilots.
  2. Human in the loop by design. Agents propose. Named people approve until trust is earned.
  3. Kill criteria written on day one. If the metric does not move in ninety days, stop or redesign.

30 / 60 / 90

  • 30: Name the workflow, owner, and success metric.
  • 60: Access, data, and model risk cleared for that one path.
  • 90: Live in production with a before/after story HQ can believe.

Takeaway

Pilots are cheap. Credibility is expensive.

Make AI part of how the center runs, or stop pretending the lab is a strategy.

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“Structure matters, but the first three or four hires decide whether your India team becomes a capability or an expensive supplier.”

— Anupam Tandon, ContextDelta

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