“Companies that don’t validate their reinvestment math against what automation actually returned, rather than what it was supposed to return, are compounding risk rather than managing it.”

Token waste in service of productive use, not waste for the sake of waste, could be the biggest problem in AI right now.

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“Companies that don’t validate their reinvestment math against what automation actually returned, rather than what it was supposed to return, are compounding risk rather than…

Most enterprise AI ROI calculations are dangerously inaccurate — ignoring the hidden costs that quietly erode the productivity gains that vendors promise.

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