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A chief AI officer works only if it holds three things: the platform and its controls, the funding gates and risk sign-off. Otherwise it is a demo team.
RPA vs AI agents for enterprise automation: where bots still win, where agents earn their cost, the hybrid pattern, and how to triage a bot portfolio.
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Do AI SDRs work? What AI sales agents deliver, where they burn domains and brand, the compliance rules, and when to assist, automate or replace by motion.
Agent evals must score a sequence of actions, not one answer. The five test layers, pass^k reliability, graders and release gates by action risk.
Buying an agent from every system of record recreates SaaS sprawl one layer up. How CIOs should choose, and which controls must stay central.
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