Your AI Idea Must Justify Business ROI
Sometimes, proof of concept (POC) feels magical, but the real test is whether it can be deployed sustainably.
Sometimes, proof of concept (POC) feels magical, but the real test is whether it can be deployed sustainably.
At StarNgage, our creator marketing platform, we once built a POC using semantic search with multi-modal embeddings. We used creator profiles and their posts as inputs, and the results amazed us.
We could search for terms like “mompreneur with toddler” and instantly find relevant creators.
But this feature never made it to production.
Why?
It cost $0.20 to process one creator. We have 10M creators in our database. That’s $2M just to launch the feature.
It was hard to justify the investment.
This taught us a crucial lesson: Technical brilliance in AI means little without a clear path to business value and a justifiable ROI.
Before diving deep into development, always ask: What’s the ROI? Can we scale this affordably?
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