Dustin Yoder // July 14, 2025 
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A frequent topic of conversation with life insurance and annuity leaders is their goals and concerns surrounding the AI landscape. They commonly talk about the vast opportunities that could exist for them at their company, but by far the most significant obstacle to achieving these opportunities is that their “data” is not ready for AI.
Gartner reports that 60 percent of AI projects that are not supported by AI-ready data will be abandoned by 2026. This should surprise nobody, as the hardest part of big digital transformation projects