How long does it take to build a production-ready AI solution? — answered by Engineer Saeed Baatiah
A pilot takes one to three weeks. A production-ready version takes six to twelve weeks, and the difference is not the model but everything around it: handling anomalies, capping cost, logging operations, the human review path, and testing against varied real data. Anyone promising a production solution in a week is describing a pilot, and the difference between them shows up in the first month of operation.