As AI investment hits historic highs and bubble warnings flash, a growing class of senior technologists is leaving Big Tech to build faster, freer and closer to the frontier.
Skillful leaders don’t push their teams to bounce back faster. They create systems where bouncing back isn’t constantly required.
2025 marked a turning point for agents that plan and act, revealing early productivity gains alongside the governance, reliability and integration hurdles that still hold back broader adoption.
Research into new in-store amenities, digital shopping formats, and partnerships reveals their unexpected costs and benefits.
Those that can build vertically integrated, full-stack, outcome-driven, agent-based systems will define the next decade of enterprise transformation.
