Why Your AI Demo Impressed Everyone and Shipped Nothing

Hosted by Harpreet Kaur

Fri, Aug 21, 2026

4:00 PM UTC (45 minutes)

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What you'll learn

The six things every AI demo hides

Evals, edge cases, cost, latency, trust, support - see how each one kills launches, with real anonymized stories.

Write your first three eval criteria this week

Use the provided pattern - quality bar, failure mode, escalation - to turn "we'll evaluate later" into a testable spec.

Diagnose why your feature is stuck and the fix

Locate which of the six gaps is blocking your ship date, and leave with the one artifact that reopens the conversation.

Why this topic matters

An impressive demo is an argument, not a product. Between demo day and ship date live six unanswered questions - evals, edge cases, cost, latency, trust, support and every week they stay open, your feature sits in demo purgatory becoming your credibility problem. This lesson names all six and helps you close the first gap the same week, with eval criteria your eng team can test against.

You'll learn from

Harpreet Kaur

Product Leader- Microsoft , CEO- Why Blend In, Certified Leadership Coach

Harpreet Kaur is a Principal Product Leader at Microsoft with more than 2 decades of 0-1 launching and delivering enterprise products across hybrid cloud, devices, and IT orgs. She has taken products from first document to global launch and killed the ones that didn't deserve the investment. A well renowned TEDx speaker, and certified leadership coach, she teaches launch judgment from scar tissue, not slideware: the rubrics, quality bars, and organizational moves that get AI products shipped.

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