# Data Is the Bottleneck in Many AI Projects

DevFeed: [Data Is the Bottleneck in Many AI Projects](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/the-most-important-part-of-your-ai-project-isn-t-ai-32383.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://brianjenney.substack.com/p/the-most-important-part-of-your-ai>)

Author: Brian Jenney

Published: 2026-02-07T16:25:26Z

Content type: opinion

Language: en

Sources: [Brian Jenney](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/brian-jenney.md>)

Topics: [data](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/data.md>), [Web Scraping](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/web-scraping.md>), [Structured-data](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/structured-data.md>), [Artificial Intelligence](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/ai.md>)

Tags: [ai](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/ai.md>), [data](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/data.md>), [data-pipeline](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/data-pipeline.md>), [grounding](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/grounding.md>), [web-scraping](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/web-scraping.md>)

## AI overview

The article argues that data collection and preparation, rather than wiring together AI components, are often the main bottlenecks in AI projects. It discusses messy real-world data, data pipelines, vector databases, and web scraping as ways to ground useful AI outputs.

## Source excerpt

This is the first Saturday I've had off in a few weeks.