The next enterprise AI frontier is the optimizable company
For the past two years, companies have been trying to add AI to their processes. That sounded reasonable at first. Existing workflows, existing systems, existing data, existing dashboards — now with intelligence attached. Add a copilot here, an agent there, a few automated steps, a model connected to some tools, and wait for productivity to rise. But this approach is starting to reveal its limit: The problem isn’t that AI can’t act. It increasingly can. The problem is that most companies don’t h
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Published: 21 July 2026
Source: Fast Company Tech
Category: News
Topics: Jobs & economy · Agents & autonomy
Retrieved: 22 July 2026
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