Strategic Software

Auditless argues that companies should adopt AI now and build agents, which it calls "strategic software," rather than treating AI mainly as a cost-cutting tool. The article cites McKinsey reporting that only 10% of organizations are scaling AI agents and that less than 5% of EBIT impact from AI comes from AI at organizations that see such impact. It states that 80% of respondents say their companies set efficiency as an objective, while companies seeing the most value often also set growth or innovation goals. It names three failure modes behind low ROI: selling AI tools, giving up too early, and failing to improve agents through measurement.