Your board is asking about AI strategy. Your competitors are deploying it. Your vendors are selling you platforms your team can't evaluate. And the people making decisions about AI at your company — the CEO, the CFO, the COO, the board — are relying on presentations from people who are trying to sell them something.
Meanwhile, the organizations that started earlier aren't just using AI tools. They're using AI to talk directly to their own data — asking questions about revenue, operations, risk, and strategy in natural language and getting real answers in seconds. The gap is already opening.