You were told AI would change everything. You bought the licenses. You ran the pilot. Somewhere between the demo and the quarterly review, the promise thinned out.

If that is your experience, you are not behind. You are in the majority, and the reason is now well documented.

This guide will not tell you which tool to buy. It will show you the six conditions that determine whether any tool creates value, why organizations skip them, and what it costs when they do. Read it and you should be able to say, with justified confidence, where your own gap is and what the responsible next step looks like.