The AI Reality Check for Enterprise Product Leaders

Why Most AI Integrations Fail—And How to Build Ones that Don't

A FREE, 5-day email course revealing the expensive mistakes that happen when AI meets legacy reality, how to push back without being labeled "resistant to innovation," and what questions to ask before your stable system becomes your weekend emergency

"SK doesn't build expensive AI experiments. They found the exact integration points in our tangled enterprise systems where AI actually matters—six months later, we're delivering millions in real value because that's what drives business growth. - Product Leader, $20B Restaurant Enterprise

Curated by Mary Elzey and the Stable Kernel team from 25+ years of enterprise transformations, including the ones that went sideways.

  • Prevented a major platform collapse that would have cost millions during the weekend rush

  • Battle-tested integrations with legacy systems from the 1990s

  • Six years on the Inc 5000 list

Ready to finally do AI right instead of AI right now?

Here's a sneak peek of everything you're going to learn inside this email course:

Day #1. Starting AI when your data lives in 47 Excel files (and why you'll burn $500K learning your "AI-ready" data isn't ready for anything)Day #2. Building AI features while your core system runs on hamster wheels (the demo that crashes during your board presentation)Day #3. Trusting "works with any enterprise system" demos ($2M later: "any" meant "built after 2020")Day #4. Letting AI loose without understanding what it's doing (Zillow's $500M lesson in "move fast and break things}Day #5. Launching a chatbot when your humans can't help customers (how pattern matching becomes lawsuit material)

Let's go. The first lesson of the AI Reality Check for Enterprise Product Leaders is on its way to your inbox.

Within the next minute or two, you're going to get an email from me (Mary Elzey).This email contains instructions to get started with our AI Reality Check for Enterprise Product Leaders, so be sure to check it out!Questions? Just ask. I actually read these.Now go and check your inbox!

P.S. If you don't find the email in your inbox in the next couple of minutes, please check your spam folder...Chances are it ended up there.(Since I'm new to sending emails to my list, sometimes the "email algorithms" think I'm a robot! 🤷🏻)