According to a Bain survey of 951 companies, almost 40 percent achieved less than 10 percent in AI cost savings, even though most had targeted 11 to 20 percent. One alleged reason is that only 7 percent actually run fully autonomous AI agents, even though their business cases assume exactly that.

“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…

A Workday study finds 85% of employees save 1-7 hours a week with AI, but nearly 40% of the time saved is lost to rework, suggesting the gains go unbanked.