• 40% of AI initiatives will be canceled by 2027 due to infrastructure gaps, not lack of ambition. • Sustainable velocity requires robust foundations; rapid deployment without it leads to technical debt. • Fragmentation tax erodes margins as teams independently build siloed AI services. • Unified AI connectivity programs align engineering, finance, and operations for scale. • Successful projects iterate on infrastructure, not just on AI models, to maintain momentum. • Boards demand agents, but without governance, projects stall or reverse course.

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  • Why 40% of AI projects will be canceled by 2027 (and how to stay in the other 60%) The agentic AI race is on, and most organizations are at risk of losing it. Not because they lack ambition, but because they’re fighting three wars simultaneously without a unified strategy. Looking at what separates successful agentic AI programs from the 40% that Gartner predicts will be canceled by 2027, the pattern is clear. Organizations aren’t failing at AI. They’re failing at the infrastructure that makes AI work at enterprise scale. There are three underlying crises of most AI initiatives,and solving the

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