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Posted On: November 2nd 2026, 03:43 pm
Two years of enterprise AI spending, and the financial return shows up in seven companies.
Apollo’s chief economist split the S&P 500 into the Magnificent Seven and the other 493. Revenue per worker and profit margins are rising for the seven and flat for the rest. In his words, the technology “has delivered zero financial payoff to corporate America outside of tech.”
We don’t read that as a verdict on AI. The flat line measures how it was deployed. The tools arrived and the work stayed the same, and a faster person inside a slow process is still a slow process.
Start with one workflow that touches revenue or cost. Redesign it end to end, and decide where a person owns the judgment.
That is the work we do with clients: one workflow at a time, into production, and judged on whether the number moved.
More at tribalscale.com/insights
#AI #EnterpriseAI #AITransformation #Leadership
Apollo’s chief economist split the S&P 500 into the Magnificent Seven and the other 493. Revenue per worker and profit margins are rising for the seven and flat for the rest. In his words, the technology “has delivered zero financial payoff to corporate America outside of tech.”
We don’t read that as a verdict on AI. The flat line measures how it was deployed. The tools arrived and the work stayed the same, and a faster person inside a slow process is still a slow process.
Start with one workflow that touches revenue or cost. Redesign it end to end, and decide where a person owns the judgment.
That is the work we do with clients: one workflow at a time, into production, and judged on whether the number moved.
More at tribalscale.com/insights
#AI #EnterpriseAI #AITransformation #Leadership
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