The "lack of imagination" problem in companies that bonus and resource against revenue instead of margin might be holding back AI adption.
Many legacy companies are doing this wrong.
AI will drive client expectations for the same work at lower cost, or more work at the same cost.
They should be building significant teams internally who are rewarded for driving up margins with AI. pull the brightest people out of the day-to-day grind and put them in new Moonshot teams that reimagine their business workflows with AI/agent use.
While small, incremental efficiency gains are cool, using fully allocated employees to double dip on building these things is not the right answer. Corporate laptop surveillance might help train models, but unless they're going to buy in to Palantir, these companies need to move quickly to dedicate teams deep inside their operations to envision how agentic models can revolutionize their business. Invest or die.