Announcing Ternium Podcasts For Founders and CEOS

What It Actually Takes to Build Production AI

I recently reflected on Ternium's journey to date, and what has changed since we started helping companies define and refine their AI strategy and bring AI-enabled products to market. Obviously, the underlying foundation model capabilities have exploded since we launched in 2023. The need to ground them in domain specific content and data to create true "Vertical AI" experiences that deliver defensible moats for companies is now more important than even. But it remains very challenging to deliver true production scale, reliability, and quality, especially for companies that are early in their growth.

We launched Ternium Podcasts for Founders, CEOs, and their teams to help you navigate this rapidly changing environment. Check out our first podcast below!

Title: Most AI Projects Fail: What It Actually Takes to Build Production AI

Description: If you're a Founder or CEO at a young company, your AI demo probably works. Your production system is another story. This episode is for you.

Ternium AI founder Steve Stalzer shares what actually separates AI that works in a demo from AI that works for thousands of real users — lessons drawn from building production AI systems across education, healthcare, manufacturing, and workforce development. If you're pre-Series C and trying to figure out how to scale your AI beyond the MVP, this is the conversation you need to hear

In this podcast, I decided to explore some of what I've learned by asking Claude (courtesy of a nice ElevenLabs voice!) to interview me on what it really takes today to bring AI to market in a production setting. What are the pitfalls? How do we ensure the agentic workflows reflect what human experts do? How can we detect and mitigate hallucinations? And how long does all of this take, anyway?

Hope you enjoy it!

-- Steve

How We Can Help

If you are struggling to figure out which AI features to invest in, how to get the ROI you need, and how to quickly take it to market at scale, we can help.

At Ternium.AI, we help venture-backed startups translate AI vision into shipped, production-grade products. We bring decades of experience in industries like education, entertainment, healthcare, and manufacturing—shortening your time to value with world-class leadership and delivery teams.

If you’re ready to up your game and take your MVP to market at scale, let's talk.