A consultant closing out a healthcare technology conference in Singapore told the room something almost no vendor ever volunteers: his own employer, the group that runs Changi Airport, throws away more than six out of every ten AI projects it starts. Not after launch. Before one.

Every applied-AI story usually gets told around what shipped. This one is about what got killed on purpose, and that turns out to be the more useful story.

In this episode, Stephen Forte covers:

• Why Changi Airport Group's discard rate is not a confession: the ideas that survive land on real, working infrastructure the team spent years building, including custom-built agents and reusable technical plumbing, so killing an idea costs almost nothing instead of a career.
• The method behind the discipline: working backwards from the customer' ...