The adoption gap nobody budgets for
Enterprises buy software at the speed of procurement and absorb it at the speed of trust. The gap between those two velocities is where most transformation programs quietly die.
June 1, 2026
Enterprises buy software at the speed of procurement and absorb it at the speed of trust. The gap between those two velocities is where most transformation programs quietly die.
The most interesting thing about agentic AI isn't what it can do autonomously. It's what happens when it hits the first approval gate.
Every quarter, AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud report AI-driven momentum. Every quarter, most enterprises are still deciding which workloads to move first.
Superiority is not enough. The switching cost is never just the price of the new tool — it's the accumulated fluency with the old one.