What the Gulf’s operators want from applied AI

Across Dubai and Abu Dhabi there is no shortage of enthusiasm for AI. What the serious operators ask for is narrower and more useful: show me the process you changed, and the number it moved.

That bar is demanding in the right way. It rules out the demo that impresses and does nothing, and it rewards the person who can map a real workflow, rebuild a step, and quantify the before and after.

It is also portable. The discipline of applying AI to how a business actually runs travels from the Gulf to any market, because the question underneath it, where does this operation leak and what closes the leak, does not change with the postcode.