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Most AI ROI Gets Lost in the Infrastructure, Not the Model

Ari Weil is a product strategy and go-to-market executive with experience across various management and operational disciplines. He brings more than 20 years of cross-functional enterprise management expertise, across every aspect of the product and marketing lifecycle, to his role. His key areas of focus include data security, compliance, risk management, cloud adoption, digital transformation, and modern application architectures.

AI gains rarely reach the profit and loss statement, and that is usually an architectural problem, not a model problem. Teams ship a working pilot, then watch the returns get eaten by latency, runaway compute, and security incidents that nobody budgeted for. The model performs. But the underlying infrastructure was never built to carry the workload into production.

Akamai commissioned two studies to pressure test where that breakdown happens.…