A TinyCTO.tv Hype Stack technical parable about strategy theater, slideware, operating choices. Strategy must state choices, sequencing, owners, constraints, and measurable outcomes—not only direction.
# Episode 139 — The AI Strategy Was a Slide Transition — Script
## Concept strategy theater;slideware;operating choices
## Hype promise The enterprise can scale AI value by standardizing pilots, dashboards, and governance ceremonies.
## System reality The AI strategy is expressed as animated slide transitions without decisions about data, architecture, ownership, risk, or value.
Risk approval is not risk ownership unless the decision is tied to people who can act when the risk becomes real.