Jeff For Local MarketingFounder of SwingPointMedia

Are 80–95% of businesses failing with AI?

11 Dec 2025 · 1 min

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Jeff (Jeff For Local Marketing) introduces a discussion about high reported AI implementation failure rates, citing a commonly-circulated claim that 80–95% of businesses fail when using AI. He frames the issue from his nearly three years of hands-on experience in digital marketing and AI automation, and signals skepticism of media-amplified negative narratives. The clip so far is the video's introduction and motivation for a deeper examination.

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Hey, I want to jump on here today and talk about failure rate with AI. And the reason I want to talk about this is because I've been heavily in the field as a digital marketing agency and now an AI automation and consulting agency for the last almost three years, pretty much at first a test subject, testing it on my own product and my business before ever launching it with any other clients. And the reason I'm jumping on here today, because there is a lot of information going around, and I think media tends to latch onto the negative and then find evidence to prove it real. And one of the things that I see popping on a lot right now, and it's this one, is businesses are experiencing a failure rate between 80 and 95% when they use AI. And by this, I mean, it's like, okay, they bring it in, they think it's going to work, and then.