From the floor at Gartner ERAC · Grapevine, TX
Can you show me the list of decisions your team actually makes?
Nobody has the list. And the three reasons agentic AI projects get canceled all trace back to it.
Gartner predicts over 40% of agentic AI projects will be canceled by the end of 2027, citing escalating costs, unclear business value or inadequate risk controls.
Gartner, press release, 25 June 2025
Each of the three is a decision nobody wrote down before the build began, and Applied Operational AI writes that list first.
Score one process.
Bring one process; leave with your coverage ratio and your gap list.
Book 20 minutes with CharlesWhat this is
Applied Operational AI is knowing the inventory of questions a business actually runs on to make decisions — and answering the right one, at the moment it matters, defensibly and on the record. Slide3 CDQ builds that inventory: map the decisions (Context), derive the questions they depend on (Questions), score each question against data you actually trust (Data).
Not a GRC tool — the artifact your GRC tool can't produce.
What you leave with
A coverage ratio and a named gap list for one process, from twenty minutes.
62% answerable today
- Answerable 62%
- Partial 23%
- Blocked 15%
No meeting yet? Score it yourself.
The CDQ Scorecard — one process, ten questions, twenty minutes.
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What it is not
- Not a chatbot pointed at a document store.
- Not a pilot that demos well and never enters the process.
- Not an assistant whose answers nobody can check.
- Not a tool bought first with the use case found afterwards.
The same method we run inside Fortune 50 risk and commercial functions — compressed to one process of yours.
In Grapevine with the strategic risk team of a global pharmaceutical company. We built the system their analysts now run: it researches a risk, works it through with the analyst, and writes the decision to the record, so the team responds to a new risk in days and manages the whole book as a portfolio it rebalances every year, not a wall of red, amber and green.
Pharmaceuticals, insurance and reinsurance, sports betting and gaming, legal, financial services — mostly inside the enabling functions of risk, finance, real estate and commercial operations.