Sixty-one percent of executives trust AI for complex decisions. Nine percent of workers do. That 52-point gap is a leadership problem, not a technology problem.
Your AI strategy has a half-life. The assumptions baked into it eighteen months ago may already be wrong — not because the strategy was poorly conceived, but because the ground shifted beneath it.
Eighty percent of AI use cases meet expectations. Only 23% prove business value. The gap isn’t a technology problem — it’s the unglamorous work that determines which deployments compound and which ones stall.
Individual AI productivity is climbing 2-3x. Investment is doubling year over year. Institutional value is barely moving. The mid-market squeeze, the three breakdown layers, and what institutional AI architecture actually requires that no vendor will sell you.