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Jason Todd Wade
Founder, BackTier
April 2026 · 35 min
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Most enterprise AI agent pilots fail — not because the technology doesn't work, but because the human risk layer was never addressed. Jason Todd Wade breaks down the anatomy of a failed AI pilot, what the human systems problem actually looks like inside organizations, and what needs to change before agentic workflows can be trusted with operational responsibility.
The episode covers the specific failure patterns Jason has observed across enterprise AI deployments: the trust deficit between employees and AI systems, the accountability ambiguity that emerges when AI makes decisions, the change management failures that happen when organizations treat AI adoption as a technology project rather than a behavioral change project.
Jason also addresses what successful AI agent deployments look like — the common characteristics of organizations that have moved from pilot to production, and why the differentiator is almost never the technology stack. It is the human systems infrastructure underneath it.