A pattern noticed after a year of weekly conversations with CTOs across APAC

Spent most of the last year in discovery calls with technology leaders across banking, healthcare, and manufacturing in Southeast Asia.

One pattern keeps surfacing - across industries, across countries, regardless of company size:

The hard question is never 'can the AI do this?' It's almost always 'how do we explain this decision in six months when someone asks?'

That single question - explainability under pressure - turns out to be the real gating factor for AI moving into core business workflows. More than cost, more than capability, more than compliance.

Curious whether the community has noticed similar patterns in other regions or industries. Is explainability the quiet bottleneck where you are too? Or is the conversation framed differently - risk, audit, governance, something else?

Brand new here on PH. Looking forward to learning from how this community thinks.