Julie Bornstein thought it would be a cinch to implement her idea for an AI startup. I had breakfast recently with Bornstein and her CTO, Maria Belousova, to learn about her startup, Daydream, funded with $50 million from VCs like Google Ventures. My first newsletter of 2025 announced that it would be The Year of the AI App. A study published in August found that 19 out of 20 AI enterprise pilot projects delivered no measurable value. Even when those questions are resolved, different AI models have different views on such things.