Deploying AI Inside a Bank Is Not an Engineering Problem — Paden Gayle, Applied AI Engineers

A bank's AI demo works but cannot ship due to non-engineering problems like security, data ownership, and risk approval. Paden Gayle outlines a method focusing on early stakeholder discovery, iterative workflow scoping, gradual autonomy, and a comprehensive evidence pack to build AI systems with a credible path to production, emphasizing that "discovery is the engineering."