Most AI initiatives fail. The gap between a cool demo and a production-grade system is a chasm that is swallowing most teams and even organizations. Architected Intelligence: Principles for Building AI-First Organizations and Technologies is the map at both the organizational and tactical level to cross this divide. The book offers proven, original frameworks for transforming your ambitions into nuts-and-bolts reality that will remain relevant as the technology evolves. Drawing on their experience building the world's largest e-commerce accelerator, as well as industry best practices and hard-won lessons from colleagues across the field, authors Jacob Miller and Jeremy Mumford deliver actionable guidance for organizations struggling to turn proofs of concept into production systems. Architected Intelligence organizes AI success around five comprehensive components that address every implementation stage: impactful output; high-quality input data; effective engineering, optimization, and integration of AI models; create trust through observability; and scale transformation through AI enablement. Leaders and builders learn repeatable processes and enduring principles, like identifying where the greatest opportunities lie at an organizational and project level, and disaggregating trust into its underlying elements. Along the way, it provides practical implementation roadmaps for both AI as product features and AI for process automation. Readers will discover how to avoid the all-or-nothing trap through incremental development, establish comprehensive and feasible unstructured data governance for organizations of any size, and a tool kit of evaluation methods to know whether your AI systems are performing or pretending. The framework addresses foundational elements necessary to scale AI systems across entire organizations, including infrastructure for developers and strategies for building the right talent and culture to drive sustainable transformation. Perfect for technical CEOs, CTOs, leaders in data science and AI, directors of engineering, and those responsible for execution, this foundational reference equips decision-makers to establish best practices that deliver lasting results for projects, teams, and organizations.