Over the past eighteen months, corporate language shifted from curiosity about AI to impatience with results. Adoption is widespread. Enterprise impact is not.
McKinsey’s State of AI 2025 found that about 88% of companies now use AI in at least one function and 62% are experimenting with AI agents. Only around 23% report scaling an agentic system somewhere, with single-function scaling rarely breaking into double digits. Only 39% report enterprise-level EBIT lift.
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