Prescription Before Diagnosis is Malpractice | Ep. 12 with Sung Paik (Data QI)

🎙️ Prescription Before Diagnosis is Malpractice | Sung Paik, Data QI"Prescription before diagnosis is malpractice." Most AI is sold backwards, and Sung Paik came with the autopsy. In this episode, Dave Goyal sits down with Sung Paik, VP of AI Go-To-Market for North America and Field CTO at Data QI, to break down why most manufacturing AI projects die in pilot purgatory, and what the 5 percent that actually work do differently.They get into the data foundation nobody wants to fix, the 6 percent output jump that added $3.6 million to one production line, the silver tsunami retiring out of factories, and why the operator on the floor, not the executive who signs the check, is the real buyer of AI.In this episode:00:00 Meet Sung Paik: finance, code, startup, and the sales number01:13 Prescription before diagnosis and the AI chasm of confusion03:22 Data before AI, and why data is never garbage05:43 The 6 percent output jump worth $3.6 million08:09 Walking away when the ROI isn't there11:31 How to say no to a client and still keep them15:08 Why the operator is the single most important person18:41 The silver tsunami and capturing institutional knowledge24:50 Assistant vs agent, explained simply34:52 Innovation sprints and escaping pilot purgatory53:40 What actually separates one AI vendor from anotherIf you build, sell, or buy AI for the factory floor, this one is a blueprint. Subscribe for more, drop your biggest AI-in-manufacturing question in the comments, and hit like if "prescription before diagnosis" just reframed how you think about AI.---🔗 Links & ResourcesData QI: https://dataqi.ai/Sung Paik LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sungpaik/Grow Without Sacrifice: https://growwithoutsacrifice.com/#AIinManufacturing #ManufacturingAI #IndustrialAI #AIStrategy #ThinkAIPodcast