Exec's Guide to Streamlining AI Integration: Unlocking Speed and Innovation in Business

Enterprise AI isn’t failing because teams lack ideas—it’s stalling because governance can’t keep up. In this episode of The Way of Product, Dave Trier (VP of Product at ModelOp) unpacks what he calls the “Wild West of AI”: dozens of teams, hundreds of tools, and no shared, auditable path to move models safely into production—especially as portfolios swell to 50–100 generative AI use cases.

Dave’s core analogy is simple: ModelOp is like ServiceNow for AI. Just as ServiceNow helped IT leaders turn messy, one-off tickets into a consistent operating model, ModelOp helps enterprises orchestrate the full cast—data, security, legal, risk, compliance, infrastructure—so AI initiatives follow a repeatable playbook instead of endless review cycles. Dave also shares a financial-services example where this approach cut time-to-production dramatically, turning months-long “science projects” into AI services that ship faster and create value before models degrade.