CricHeroes had three tempting GenAI commentary ideas and no way to tell which was worth the engineering bill.
Bringing the pro-cricket experience, pre-match, live, and post-match, to grassroots players with GenAI. Three pilots, three different lessons about where it pays off.
CricHeroes had three tempting GenAI commentary ideas and no way to tell which was worth the engineering bill.
Judge each GenAI bet on its own terms. The honest buckets are not GenAI worked or it did not. Cost-at-scale and quality are separate killers, and each pilot passed or failed for its own reason.
I evaluated all three, pre-match show, live ball-by-ball, and post-match wrap-up, and made the cost-benefit call on what ships, what waits, and what dies.
The senior call on AI is often what not to build. Killing two pilots early was worth more than shipping all three.
Open the full architecture, modeling, validation and lessons.