Five Red Flags I Look For in Every AI Tool Demo (That Most Buyers Miss)

Short summary

Five practical red flags to watch for during enterprise AI tool demos: (1) confident answers to questions outside indexed content, indicating hallucination risk; (2) evasion on data flow specifics; (3) uniform confidence regardless of evidence quality; (4) inability to show the live admin interface for governance; (5) refusal to give scenario-specific pricing. Each signal predicts real-world problems that prepared demos are designed to hide.

• •Ask a question not in indexed content — good tools say 'I don't know,' bad ones hallucinate
• •Demand a live admin interface walkthrough, not a recording — governance visibility matters
• •Vendors who redirect data-flow questions to compliance docs either don't know or won't say

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