Most organizations have done an AI pilot. Many have done ten. Remarkably few have something running in production that actually changes how work gets done. Omid Pakseresht, founder and CEO of GOODFOLIO, breaks down the pilot-to-production gap, why governance kills more AI projects than bad technology, and what it actually takes to build AI systems that work inside real enterprise workflows.
In this episode of the Localization Fireside Chat, Robin Ayoub sits down with Omid Pakseresht, founder and CEO of GOODFOLIO, a London-based AI venture studio that builds and deploys specialised AI systems directly into enterprise workflows across financial compliance, strategic intelligence, retail AI, and neurological diagnostics.
Omid arrived in the UK from Iran at 16, studied mathematics at Oxford, worked as a quantitative analyst at Record Currency Management, and founded TransferGuru before spending the last decade building enterprise AI products. He co-founded GOODFOLIO with his brother, combining product and commercial expertise with deep academic and deployment experience in AI.
In this conversation, Robin and Omid unpack why AI keeps failing to get out of the pilot stage, what the real blockers are inside large organizations, and how the language services industry should be thinking about AI adoption right now.
Topics covered include the pilot-to-production gap, governance as a capability rather than a process, AI fatigue and employee resistance, multilingual and multi-jurisdiction compliance AI with FinSpector, the difference between human in the loop and human as gateway, and whether AI can ever replace serendipity.
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