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Mind the AI Gap

The Chief AI Architect's Guide from Ambition to Reality

Antoine Craske

85% of AI projects fail. This book shows you why—and how to be in the 15% that succeed.

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About the Book

Every organization wants AI. Few can deliver it.


The statistics tell a brutal story: 85% of AI projects fail to deliver on their promises. Only 11% of companies have adopted generative AI at scale. 30% of GenAI projects will be abandoned after proof of concept. The average time from prototype to production is eight months—and that's for the projects that succeed.


Organizations don't lack AI ambition. They lack AI reality.


The Cause

The failures aren't random. They're caused by gaps—specific, identifiable, predictable gaps between what organizations have and what AI transformation requires:

  • The gap between AI strategy and the architecture required to execute it
  • The gap between data infrastructure and AI-ready data
  • The gap between pilots that demo well and production systems that work
  • The gap between organizational structures that exist and capabilities AI requires
  • The gap between governance policies on paper and governance that governs
  • The gap between one agent working and an ecosystem of agents working together


Seven gaps. Each capable of killing an AI initiative. Together, they explain why transformation is so hard—and why the same organizations keep failing in the same ways.


The Solution

Mind the AI Gap teaches the Seven Gaps framework through story.


Follow Alva Bento, a Chief AI Architect, through thirty months of transformation at Nexin—a European distributor facing an existential competitive threat. Watch her discover the gaps, build coalitions, develop frameworks, face crises, and ultimately build something that works.


Through Alva's journey, you'll learn:

  • 18 Practical Frameworks — From the Bridge Canvas for strategy translation to the Agent Launch Confidence Gate for production readiness
  • The Chief AI Architect Role — What it is, why it matters, and how to execute it
  • Phase-Gated Transformation — Why Foundation must precede Execution, and Execution must precede Scale
  • The 100-Point Assessment — A diagnostic tool to evaluate where your organization stands and where to focus


Who This Book Is For

CTOs and technology leaders responsible for AI transformation. Chief Architects and Directors of Architecture who see the gaps but lack frameworks to close them. Enterprise Architects adapting EA for AI. Principal Engineers pulled into strategic conversations. Anyone tired of watching AI projects die in pilot purgatory.


This isn't a book about how transformers work or how to fine-tune models. It's a book about closing the gaps between AI ambition and AI reality.

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Antoine Craske

Entrepreneur • Systemic CTO • Transformation

An entrepreneur and technology leader with over 15 years of experience, Antoine Craske has built and transformed tech organizations from startups to international scale-ups. Founder of several B2B technology and SaaS services companies, he has navigated the entire entrepreneurial spectrum: from product creation to organizational scaling, from fundraising to international expansion.

An Entrepreneurial and Technology Journey

Antoine has held strategic positions as CTO, Chief Architect, VP Engineering, and Technical Director in various sectors: marketplace, retail, wholesale, transportation, HR, e-commerce, B2B SaaS, professional services, manufacturing, and energy. This diversity has allowed him to develop a unique cross-functional vision of technological and business challenges.

What sets him apart? A systemic approach proven in the field. Faced with the limitations of traditional solutions in hypergrowth contexts, he spent 10 years developing and perfecting a pragmatic, concrete transformation methodology that generates measurable results: a 40% reduction in time-to-market, a 50% increase in EBITDA, a 40x increase in team velocity, 30% cost optimization, and a 50% improvement in tech talent retention.

Recognized expert and committed practitioner

Transformation, strategic consulting & coaching

Antoine currently supports CTOs and executive committees in their digital and systemic transformation. His approach combines strategic vision and operational execution, enabling organizations to move from perpetual reactivity to strategic anticipation. Training & Teaching

  • 300+ articles published on personal and third-party websites
  • 200+ transformations documented and analyzed
  • 50+ presentations at international tech conferences
  • 8+ expert communities created, ranging from 0 to 1,000+ members
  • Exclusive training for CTOs and tech leaders
  • Active community of systemic practitioners

Continuous Innovation

Convinced that the future belongs to leaders capable of thinking and acting in a systemic way, Antoine continues to innovate by collecting field data, refining his methodologies, and developing new tools to address the emerging challenges of technology leadership. His contributions:

  • ML/AI research to optimize the software development process
  • MAMOS systemic framework, AAA/3A, MVM, Quality at Speed
  • Author of On Defining Quality Engineering, The Systemic CTO
  • Co-founder of the open-source automation platform Cerberus Testing and Automate©
  • Co-creator of Automate Score©

His mission

Transform the way CTOs think and act by giving them the keys to:

  • See beyond symptoms and act on root causes
  • Align technology and business systemically
  • Create resilient and high-performing tech organizations
  • Generate a measurable and sustainable impact

Reach out through Linkedin as the preffered channel.

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