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The Customer Who Wasn't In The Demo

A service company wants to turn an internal AI outage assistant into a customer chatbot after a flawless demo: until an empty chair and one unsupported restart time reveal whose risk the demo erased.

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S03E04 · 2026-08-22

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Who carries the risk when a flawless demonstration becomes a customer promise?

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