Mistakes are common in the early stages of new technology adoption. As a native AI firm for more than a decade, OnCorps has learned from many mistakes in AI implementations. This paper describes thow to avoid the most common mistakes that technology and financial services industries are making with AI investments. But OnCorps is extremely bullish on the disruptive potential of AI but we know firms will make many of the same mistakes we did. This paper is intended to guide firm’s as they make AI investments.