title: "From demo to done: why most AI products stall" date: "2026-06-21" excerpt: "The gap between a great AI demo and a product people use every day — and how to close it."

From demo to done

Most AI products die in the gap between the demo and the daily habit. Here's what I've learned shipping AI products people actually use.

The demo is the easy part

A convincing demo proves the model can do the thing once. Adoption proves it does the thing reliably, inside a workflow, when no one is watching.