3 posts tagged with "Enterprise"

Something quietly changed in how companies talk about AI this year. In 2024, using AI at work was a perk — a clever thing you did to get ahead, maybe a little bit against the rules. In 2026, it's closer to a job requirement, and the surveys have gotten blunt about it.

The uncomfortable part isn't the expectation. It's that the same organizations setting the bar mostly aren't helping anyone clear it.

At the start of the year, every analyst deck said the same thing: 2026 would be "the year of the agent." We're halfway through, so it's a fair time to check the receipts. Did autonomous AI actually show up to work — or is it still mostly a demo that dazzles in a keynote and disappears in a real workflow?

The honest answer is: both, depending on where you look. Some agent use cases have quietly become load-bearing infrastructure that teams would now struggle to give up. Others turned out to be expensive science projects that got quietly shelved after the pilot. The difference between the two rarely came down to the model. It came down to how the work was scoped. Here's the mid-2026 scorecard.

AI agents are everywhere in the headlines — but what's actually real, and what can you do with them today? This month we're launching three major guides to help you cut through the noise, find practical applications, and bring AI into your team with confidence.