Eighteen Months Of Vendor Reviews That Ended Back At The Start
A healthcare organization spent eighteen months evaluating artificial intelligence vendors, with every proposal passing through seven layers of approval, according to an account published by Entrepreneur on 30 September 2026. By the time a decision arrived, two of the three shortlisted vendors had changed their products entirely and the process restarted. A competitor decided within ninety days and spent the following eighteen months building capability.
The process began as diligence and never reached a conclusion: each additional committee and vendor review felt like risk reduction while the market moved underneath it. The same article describes a chief executive at a company with more than two billion dollars in annual revenue who presented a confident roadmap, then privately admitted he did not know whether any of it would work.
Source: Entrepreneur · September 30, 2026