I've spent a lot of time helping companies launch ML-driven products. I have a pretty in-depth guide on ML products and warnings signs here: https://phaseai.com

I've spent a lot of time helping companies launch ML-driven products. I have a pretty in-depth guide on ML products and warnings signs here: https://phaseai.com/resources/how-to-build-ml-products https://phaseai.com/resources/how-to-build-ml-products In short: avoid any company where the AI is "magic"... i.e., the founders/CTO/technical team talk about how they'll "figure it out" later, or how it's just matter of some "R&D" time... This happens SO MUCH. Also make sure the company actually has heavy duty AI talent. It blows my mind how often AI companies launch without any AI talent... Then they spend years searching for talent to solve what turns out to be an intractable problem. At the very least, you should be able to sit down with someone technical who can walk you through the business problem, then show you how the business problem can be solved with data/AI/ML/etc. and tell you what steps need to be taken to make this all work.