Business Case Study

A March 2026 survey of 650 enterprise technology leaders found 78% have an AI agent pilot running but only 14% have scaled one to production. SDR agents are the statistical exception — median time-to-value 3.4 months versus 5.1 months across all agent categories. The 14% surviving pattern is the same every time.

Anthropic + Blackstone + Goldman launched a services company to bring Claude into mid-sized enterprises. The deal validates a $100B+ market — but procurement cycles mean sub-$100M B2B teams won’t see this stack inside their CRM until 2028. Here’s the alternative shipping today.