COD Magazine: From AI workshop to AI factory — A Case Study in Reusable AI Capabilities

When adopting new enterprise technologies, companies traditionally used small, controlled pilot projects to test and validate new ideas and innovations. Artificial intelligence follows this familiar trajectory, with companies establishing what amount to AI workshops—carefully crafted but ultimately siloed initiatives.
While these pioneering efforts demonstrate AI’s potential, they also reveal the limitations of treating each AI implementation as an artisanal endeavor. At 84.51°, we discovered that replacing our workshop mentality with an “AI factory” model — where core capabilities, services, and infrastructure are developed for reuse — accelerates development and changes how we extract value from our AI investments.

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