The order – what is the optimal flow and where does every part of the process live?

Companies interested in creating value with AI/ML have a lot to gain compared to their more hesitant competitors. According to McKinsey Global Institute, “Companies that fully absorb AI in their value-producing workflows by 2025 will dominate the 2030 world economy with +120% cash flow growth.” The undertaking of embracing AI and productionizing it – whether in your product or for internal purposes – is complex, technical debt-heavy, and expensive. Once your models and use cases are chosen, making that happen in production becomes a difficult program to manage and this is a process many companies will struggle with as we see companies in industries other than tech starting to take on the challenge of embracing AI. Operationalizing the process, updating the models, keeping the data fresh and clean, and organizing experiments, as well as validating, testing, and the storage...