Gayathri Devi Jayan

Why the real bottleneck on enterprise AI is leadership, not the workforce

A simple test for whether your agentic AI initiative is worth building

Somewhere in 2025, a manager was asked to let someone go. The reason given was efficiency. The real reason was a promise that AI would handle it from here. This played out across hundreds of companies that year. The narrative was straightforward: AI was coming, it would absorb the work people were doing, and getting ahead of that shift meant cutting now rather than later. It felt like a smart, forward looking move at the time. It did not stay that way for long. The AI that was promised and...