Every conference keynote, vendor booth, and LinkedIn post is promising that AI will transform your laboratory. Very little of it explains what that actually looks like on a Tuesday morning when 240 samples are waiting.

This is the opening session of a four part series built for laboratory people rather than software people. We sort the claims into three buckets, show where AI realistically fits in a laboratory day, and hand you five questions that will tell you in about ten minutes whether a vendor's AI is real.

No jargon. No hype. No product pitch.