• The Great AM Reset: Why Applications Will Decide Who Survives Share this Article Fordecades, the AM industry has been powered by an exciting narrative of endless growth and disruptive potential. • We celebrated every new technology, every injection of capital, and every bold promise about a transformed future. • But as we head into 2026, the “growth at all costs” mantra is being replaced by a more sober and critical question: where is profitability? • The truth is: our industry is overcrowded, unfocused, and, for many, deeply unprofitable. • This is the Great AM Reset, a necessary shift from a technology push to an application pull mindset. • The Unprofitable Playground Theproblem is not a lack of effort, but the very nature of the tools we have created.

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  • For decades, the AM industry has been powered by an exciting narrative of endless growth and disruptive potential. We celebrated every new technology, every injection of capital, and every bold promise about a transformed future. But as we head into 2026, the “growth at all costs” mantra is being replaced by a more sober and critical question: where is profitability? The truth is: our industry is overcrowded, unfocused, and, for many, deeply unprofitable. This is the Great AM Reset, a necessary shift from a technology push to an application pull mindset. The Unprofitable Playground The problem

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