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DigyAi Insights
What it takes to run a company on AI.
Sourced analysis on the cost, risk and engineering of enterprise AI, from the engineers who build it.
32 analyses1147 linked sourcesReviewed October 2026
- Return 37% of organizations report any EBIT impact from AI McKinsey, 2026
- Delivery over40% of agentic AI projects expected to be canceled by 2027 Gartner, 2025
- Security 97% of organizations reporting an AI breach lacked AI access controls IBM, 2025
- Economics over280× fall in inference cost for the same capability, 2022 to 2024 Stanford HAI, 2025
Each figure is a gap between AI in a pilot and AI in production. Closing it is what we engineer.See what we build
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Where to start
The library
Every analysis, one question each.
- Agents
Guide 19 minReviewed Oct 2026
Computer-Use Agents vs RPA in 2026: What AI That Operates Screens Can Replace
36%of OSWorld tasks a strong agent completed on all ten of ten runsGonzalez-Pumariega et al., 2026
- Agents
Guide 15 minReviewed Oct 2026
AI SRE Agents in 2026: What They Find, Where They Fail and How to Deploy Them Safely
20.7%of incidents in which frontier models recovered the exact set of root causesOpenRCA 2.0, 2026
- Agents
Guide 18 minReviewed Oct 2026
AI Customer Service Agents in 2026: What They Resolve, Where They Fail and How to Deploy Them
64%of conversations on Salesforce's own help site resolved autonomously, down from over 84% a year earlierSalesforce earnings call, August 2026
- Agents
Playbook 13 minReviewed Sep 2026
AI Agent Guardrails: 8 Controls That Hold Up in Production
23%of respondents say they are scaling an agentic AI systemMcKinsey, 2025
- Agents
Guide 16 minReviewed Sep 2026
AI Agent Security: The Threat Model and Controls a CISO Should Require
13%of organizations studied reported a breach of an AI model or applicationIBM, 2025
- Agents
Analysis 16 minReviewed Sep 2026
What Drives AI Agent Development Cost in 2026
5 to 30×more tokens per task for an agent than for a chatbotGartner, 2026
- Agents
Explainer 16 minReviewed Sep 2026
AI Agents vs Chatbots vs Agentic AI: What Actually Differs
about130of the thousands of agentic AI vendors judged to be realGartner, 2025
- Engineering
Guide 17 minReviewed Oct 2026
Real-Time Data Streaming in 2026: When It Pays and Which Platform to Choose
about1%of items Instacart scores in real time, a split that cut the compute for availability scoring by about 80%Instacart, 2023
- Engineering
Guide 17 minReviewed Oct 2026
When to Fine-Tune an LLM in 2026: What It Fixes, What It Costs and Why the Market Moved
12.1%of comparisons in which medical fine-tunes beat the general model they were built onJeong et al., EMNLP 2024
- Engineering
Guide 18 minReviewed Oct 2026
Text-to-SQL in 2026: How Accurate AI Data Analysts Are, Where They Fail and How to Deploy Them
10.8%of questions from real warehouse logs answered correctly by leading agent frameworks on GPT-5.2BEAVER benchmark, 2026
- Engineering
Guide 15 minReviewed Oct 2026
AI Document Processing in 2026: What It Reads Well, Where It Fails and How to Deploy It
73.3%of invoice fields GPT-4o extracted correctly on a benchmark of real invoicesExtractConf, arXiv, 2026
- Engineering
Guide 16 minReviewed Oct 2026
Data Warehouse Migration in 2026: When to Move and How to Cut Over Safely
about70%of LinkedIn's migration workload removed by retiring datasets before the moveLinkedIn Engineering, 2021
- Engineering
Playbook 18 minReviewed Oct 2026
Running AI in Production: How to Operate AI Systems After Go-Live
30 daysa serving bug degraded a frontier model's answers before user reports exposed itAnthropic, 2025
- Engineering
Guide 15 minReviewed Oct 2026
AIKosh and IndiaAI: A CTO's Guide to Building Enterprise AI in India
over15,999datasets on AIKosh, India's national AI catalogueAIKosh, 2026
- Engineering
Guide 16 minReviewed Sep 2026
LLM and AI Agent Evaluation: How to Prove a System Is Ready to Ship
84% → 51%one model's accuracy on the same task, three months apartChen et al., 2023
- Engineering
Playbook 16 minReviewed Sep 2026
Enterprise RAG in Production: Why Pilots Stall and What Fixes Them
17 to 33%of answers hallucinated by commercial legal RAG toolsStanford, 2024
- Engineering
Checklist 16 minReviewed Sep 2026
Is Your Data Ready for AI? A Use-Case Data Readiness Assessment
60%of AI projects without AI-ready data expected to be abandoned through 2026Gartner, 2025
- Economics
Guide 18 minReviewed Oct 2026
Self-Hosting LLMs in 2026: When Open-Weight Models on Your Own GPUs Pay
4 monthsaverage lag of the best open-weight models behind the best closed modelsEpoch AI, 2026
- Economics
Analysis 15 minReviewed Oct 2026
Cloud Repatriation in 2026: When Moving Off the Public Cloud Pays
8 to 9%of companies plan a full exit from the public cloud; most move selected workloadsIDC, 2024
- Economics
Playbook 22 minReviewed Oct 2026
AI Pilot to Production: How to Rescue, Restart, Buy or Stop a Stalled Pilot
6%of organizations attribute 5% or more of EBIT to AIMcKinsey, 2026
- Economics
Playbook 17 minReviewed Sep 2026
How to Calculate AI ROI Before You Commit Budget
2 to 4 yrsfor a typical AI use case to reach satisfactory ROIDeloitte, 2025
- Economics
Playbook 16 minReviewed Sep 2026
AI Inference Cost: How to Govern LLM and Agent Spend
32%of model pairs where the lower listed price cost more in totalChen et al., 2026
- Economics
Checklist 16 minReviewed Sep 2026
15 Questions to Ask an AI Development Company Before You Sign
48%of breaches involved a third partyVerizon, 2026
- Regulation
Guide 17 minReviewed Oct 2026
Vibe-Coded Apps in 2026: When an AI-Built App Can Run Your Business
10.3%of 1,645 Lovable apps scanned in 2025 had database access rules weak enough to expose dataMatt Palmer, 2025
- Regulation
Analysis 18 minReviewed Oct 2026
Brain-Computer Interfaces and AI in 2026: What Brainwave Decoding Can Actually Do
97.5%word accuracy an implanted speech BCI sustained over 8.4 months of daily conversationCard et al., NEJM, 2024
- Regulation
Guide 17 minReviewed Oct 2026
Platform Engineering in 2026: When an Internal Developer Platform Pays and How to Build One
14%drop in change stability among platform users, beside an 8% drop in throughputDORA, Google Cloud, 2024
- Regulation
Guide 16 minReviewed Oct 2026
AI Coding Agents in the Enterprise: What They Speed Up, What They Break and How to Govern Them
+30%rise in releases against about 240% more commits with coding agentsNBER, 2026
- Regulation
Guide 16 minReviewed Oct 2026
AI-Assisted .NET and Java Modernization: What the Tools Automate and What They Miss
52.3%of hard Java 8 to 17 upgrades the best AI agent finished on its ownFreshBrew, 2025
- Regulation
Analysis 17 minReviewed Sep 2026
EU AI Act Compliance in 2026: What the Omnibus Changed and What Is Due Now
7%of worldwide turnover, the maximum fine for a prohibited practiceEU AI Act
- Regulation
Analysis 16 minReviewed Sep 2026
AI for COBOL and Mainframe Modernization: What It Changes and What It Doesn't
over70%of mainframe exits started in 2026 expected to miss their benefitsGartner, 2026
- Regulation
Guide 16 minReviewed Sep 2026
Custom ERP vs Off-the-Shelf: When to Build, Buy or Extend
35%of builders surveyed have replaced a SaaS tool with a custom buildRetool, 2026
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Written from production, held to an engineering standard.
- Engineering record−90%support tickets, after an AI support assistant went liveAI support assistant
- Engineering record40,500requests a minute at peak, on a reward engine our engineers builtReward engine
- Client system92%fewer payout errors, measured by a dairy networkDairy payout platform
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1147 sources370 publishersReviewed Oct 2026
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- Regulators and public bodies10 · 84 citations
- Standards bodies and open projects13 · 48 citations
- Research institutions4 · 150 citations
- Analysts, industry and press343 · 865 citations
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The research
Who writes DigyAi Insights?
DigyAi's engineers write every analysis, from the systems they design, build and run for clients. The same engineers have run AI and platforms in production at scale: an AI support assistant that cut support tickets by 90% and backends serving 40,500 requests a minute. The case studies are on the Work page.
How are the figures in DigyAi Insights sourced and checked?
Every figure links to the publisher that measured it: regulators, standards bodies, research institutions and industry analysts. Each analysis shows the day it was published and the day every figure and link was last checked, and it lists its sources in full at the end.
How often are the analyses reviewed?
Each analysis is re-checked when a law, standard or figure it relies on changes, and its reviewed date moves with that check. The date at the top of every article is the last day each figure and link in it was verified.
Is any of this research sponsored?
No. No vendor pays to appear in DigyAi Insights or to be recommended in it. The analyses weigh approaches on evidence, and where a product or protocol is named, it is named for what it does.
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Can we use these figures in a board paper?
Yes. Cite the original publisher, which is linked beside each figure and listed in the article's sources, and link the analysis if it helped. The figures belong to the organizations that measured them.
Where should a leader new to enterprise AI start?
Start with the analysis that matches the decision in front of you. For budget, read what drives AI agent cost and how to calculate AI ROI. For risk, read AI agent security and the EU AI Act guide. For a first system, read how to prove an AI system is ready to ship.
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