Five steps from a business problem to an LLM that actually ships

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Most LLM projects I have watched go sideways did not fail on the model. They failed because somebody picked the model first. That is the whole pathology. A team reads a benchmark table, decides on a model, and only then goes looking for a problem shaped like it. Six weeks later there is a demo nobody can price, evaluate, or hand to the support team.

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