More than 1,000 enterprise, government and academic leaders spent three days in Melbourne on commercial AI. Across the floor the same pattern came up. Pilots are everywhere. Payoff is far rarer. The reasons trace back to decisions made long before production.

Sharon AI attended as a Gold Sponsor and presented From Pilot Purgatory to Production: Building AI for Payoff. The conversations that followed kept returning to sovereign capacity on Australian soil and the architecture calls that decide whether a pilot ever reaches payoff.