Most enterprise AI initiatives do not fail because the technology is wrong. They fail because the organization was not ready before the initiative began. The five warning signs that consistently appear in AI readiness assessments — regardless of sector or market — are siloed and ungoverned data, absent executive sponsorship, vendor-defined use cases, no governance framework, and teams that cannot explain how an AI decision was made. A SAiGE-powered AI readiness assessment identifies exactly where each gap exists and what to do first.