Years-long decline before final shutdown · Fatal mistake: Peruvian enterprise AI procurement dominated by Accenture and IBM Peru through existing banking and mining contracts; PeruAI direct sales blocked by consultant channel
Evaluating only PeruAI’s profile at its peak — without knowing the outcome — the model ranked Competition as the #1 likely cause. Documented cause: Distribution.
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FOUNDING
FUNDING
MILESTONE
SHUTDOWN
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Documented cause
PeruAI developed NLP and analytics AI for Peruvian financial services. Accenture and IBM Peru's multi-decade banking relationships meant procurement defaulted to approved IT partners. PeruAI won 8 pilots but converted only 2 to contracts.
Lesson
“Peruvian AI companies must pursue Accenture and IBM Peru partner certifications before enterprise sales — the consultant channel controls 70%+ of Peruvian enterprise technology procurement.”
Failure anatomy
Collapse type
Slow Death
🐌 LOW
Hype cycle
Peak
Moat type
Technology
Fatal mistake
Peruvian enterprise AI procurement dominated by Accenture and IBM Peru through existing banking and mining contracts; PeruAI direct sales blocked by consultant channel