Here's a pattern I keep seeing. Smart teams at smart companies spin up an AI project. They pick a vendor. The demo looks great. Everyone's excited. And then nothing happens. The pilot sits there. Months pass. Eventually someone quietly kills it. Nobody talks about why. I've watched this play out enough times now that I can almost predict the failure points before they happen. There are three of them. And weirdly, none of them are about the AI being dumb. Pain #1: The Access Control Nightmare