20%
MODEL
silicon
The algorithm. The training data. The validation. Everything a research paper covers. Everything a demo shows off. Real, but small.
A FRAMEWORK BY SAURABH AGARWAL · FOUNDER, PROEFFICO
The Deployment Split™
20% silicon. 30% steel. 50% soul.
Proeffico's framework for how AI actually gets built in the real world.
The origin.
The first time we deployed our AI, I was sure it would work. Months of testing. Clean light. Controlled angles. A quiet room. The model was beautiful. Then we took it to a polymer plant in Haryana. Dust. Glare. Shift changes. Smoke that looked like steam. The model that worked perfectly the night before failed in front of the client. That day I learned the lesson nobody tells you when you start an AI company. The AI is the easiest part.
The three layers.
30%
DEPLOYMENT
steel
The cameras. The GPUs. The network variance. The integration with the ERP nobody has looked at in eleven years. The pipeline that worked yesterday and does not today because a shift supervisor moved a light. This is where most vendors stop selling. It is where the real bill begins.
50%
ADOPTION
soul
The 40 supervisors who have never used a screen at work. The plant head who needs the 7 AM report readable without a coffee. The finance team whose month end adjustments are now visible in real time. The floor that goes on strike, not against the software, but against what the software makes visible. Half of every AI project is people. Not process. Not policy. People.
90% of AI projects in India fail. Not because the model is wrong.
Not because the model is wrong. Because vendors sold the 20% and walked away before the 30% was stable, and pretended the 50% was somebody else's problem. At Proeffico, we spent four years learning that the 50% is the entire project.
Saurabh Agarwal
Founder & CEO, Proeffico
Where we have deployed.
India, United States, United Arab Emirates, Oman. On the floor, in the store, inside the plant. Real installations, not renderings.
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The Deployment Split is a trademark of Saurabh Agarwal / Proeffico Solutions. First published August 2026.
