Jun 6, 2026
By Manos Tzagkarakis, Engineering Lead at Datawise.ai
The Gap Between AI Spend and AI Results
A pattern repeats in almost every conversation we have had with prospective clients over the last year. They have spent a meaningful amount of money on AI subscriptions, on copilots, on chatbots, on a handful of proofs of concept. Some of these investments came from vision, others from a perfectly reasonable fear of being left behind. What is consistently missing is not effort or budget, it is results. Or more precisely, the kind of results that can be defended to a board, to a finance team, or to a customer, with numbers attached.
