Writer's self-commissioned survey of 2,400 executives and employees finds that while 97% of executives deployed AI agents in the past year, only 29% of organizations report significant ROI from generative AI and 23% from AI agents, a persistent productivity-to-ROI gap. Structural failures dominate: 75% of executives admit their AI strategy is "more for show," 67% believe their company has suffered a data breach from unapproved AI tools, and the share of organizations reporting adoption challenges rose double digits year-over-year to 79%. For financial institutions, this data point, sourced from a vendor with an incentive to dramatize the problem, nonetheless quantifies the gap between enterprise AI spend and measurable business-level returns, bearing directly on whether AI investment translates into durable revenue for platform providers.
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