Why your AI pilot stalled at the context gap
Summary
Most AI pilots don't stall because of weak models — they stall because the system lacks trusted context, and this post lays out how to close that gap. It reframes context as the foundation Databricks teams need to build before scaling AI initiatives past the pilot stage.
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