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ARTICLE · 06 NOVEMBER 2026

Agentic AI Will Not Fix Broken Work. It Will Do Broken Work Faster | Part 4

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Enterprises are racing to deploy AI agents and applying them to workflows that were never redesigned for such optimization. RAND found that more than 80% of AI projects fail, roughly twice the rate of ordinary technology projects, and that the causes are overwhelmingly operational rather than technical. Gartner now predicts that over 40% of agentic AI projects will be canceled by the end of 2027. Those two findings together validate that technology is not the constraint to positive ROI for agentic adoption. The implementation approach is. Drop an agent into a process built around human limitations, and you do not transform the process. You automate its dysfunction, at speed and scale.

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