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Your Agentic AI Isn’t Failing. Your Math Is

MIT’s NANDA initiative found in 2025 that 95 percent of enterprise generative AI pilots delivered no measurable P&L return, against an estimated 30 to 40 billion dollars invested. Gartner’s forecast for what happens next is worse: more than 40 percent of agentic AI projects will be canceled by the end of 2027, driven in part by escalating costs and unclear business value. The pilots that don’t quietly die become the projects that get killed later.

It would be easy to mistake this data as proof the technology isn’t ready.

It’s not the technology. It’s your business case.

I’ve managed through…

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