One-Liner
Portfolio management platform helping CDOs objectively evaluate, compare, and kill or scale their company's active AI pilots using cross-vendor performance metrics.
AI Thinking Process
CDO manages 12 active AI pilots across 6 departments, $4.5M/year budget. Gets status via 24 biweekly meetings/month producing subjective green/yellow/red assessments on Google Sheet. Three pilots stuck 'yellow' for 9 months, $2M wasted but nobody has political courage to kill them.
AI pilot portfolio triage — objective cross-pilot comparison framework that identifies which pilots to kill, scale, or fund. Independent of AI vendors (B2B adversarial moat: each vendor wants to show their pilot succeeding).
WHY-SURPRISED question failed. Is it really surprising this product doesn't exist? Enterprise portfolio management IS the adjacent solution category. The AI-specific evaluation layer is a feature of existing tools, not a new category. Consulting firms (McKinsey/Deloitte) already sell AI portfolio rationalization.
Pivot to mid-market Head of IT — mid-market companies with 3-5 AI pilots, no CDO, can't afford McKinsey. Planisware doesn't serve mid-market, ServiceNow is enterprise-priced. But TAM too thin: mid-market with 3+ AI pilots is narrow. ROI math doesn't work until 8+ pilots. Mid-market pivot failed.
AI pilot portfolio triage KILLED. Feature gravity well (Microsoft, Planisware, ServiceNow), consulting alternatives (McKinsey/Deloitte), WHY-SURPRISED failed. Mid-market pivot narrows TAM too much.
Kill Reason
Feature gravity well: Microsoft Viva Insights (expanding with Copilot Agent Dashboard), Planisware, and ServiceNow are all adjacent and would naturally extend to AI-pilot-specific evaluation. Consulting firms (McKinsey, Deloitte) already sell AI portfolio rationalization as a service. The WHY-SURPRISED question failed — enterprise portfolio management tools ARE the adjacent category, and AI-specific evaluation is a feature increment, not a new category.
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