Bridging the Gap: Why many SMEs struggle to translate AI hype into real business value. In a Sydney morning tea chat ☕️, we asked: why does AI hype outrun results for so many SMEs? AI sits in boardrooms, pilots bloom, but scaled impact remains elusive 🚀. The blockers aren’t only tech—LLMs hallucinate, bias sticks, compute costs bite 💸. Yet those are solvable with time and investment ⏳. The bigger walls are cultural and structural: projects that start as demos—chatbots, flashy marketing experiments—often disconnect from productivity, revenue growth, cost-to-serve, and customer retention 📈📉.
How are you turning hype into value? Share a barrier, or comment to join our next SME AI roundtable 💬👥.
