Businesses tend to eye AI spending as a way to reduce headcount, but firms that cut staffers as a result of AI are doing no better than those who don’t, according to new Gartner research.
Gartner recently surveyed 350 global business leaders at large organizations already using AI agents and intelligent automation tools and found that 80% of them reported a lowered headcount as a result of AI initiatives — in some cases by up to 20%.
But those layoffs appear to be less beneficial than senior leaders might assume.
“There’s no connection or correlation between people who are achieving ROI and layoffs,” said Helen Poitevin, distinguished vice president analyst at Gartner, adding that labor reduction is “not the best” ROI metric. Other factors such as revenue, growth, and time to market are more effective in achieving a strong ROI.
“Those who only look to the workforce tend to be the ‘laggards,’ because they’re not going after the broader set of value that they can get to,” she said. Th
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AI Library, an outcome-based software delivery startup founded in 2023 by Arani Chaudhuri, has raised $560,000 in pre-seed funding at a $7.5 million valuation cap to accelerate its AI agent-driven approach to enterprise software deployment. The company’s platform automates the software delivery lifecycle using AI agents with human oversight, targeting enterprise functions including finance, operations, […]
I counted at least 10 events in San Francisco last night aimed at matching AI startups with VCs. Just another Thursday.
But what made Camp AI’s “Agents at Work” event (hosted by Auth0) stand out was its showcase of companies that are in various stages of reorganizing their engineering processes around AI agents. Browserbase, Mastra, Fireworks AI, Drata, Mya, MindFort, and Corridor are all part of the vendor ecosystem trying to enable secure and performant agentic AI, but the most revelatory stories were their own successes and the challenges they faced restructuring their engineering orgs for agents.
Agentic AI is reshaping team structures
Paul Klein IV, founder and CEO of Browserbase, delivered the night’s most memorable line while discussing the speed of AI adoption inside engineering teams. “If AI is not doing your whole job it’s a skill issue at this point,” said Klein.
Abhi Aiyer, founder and CTO of Mastra, said the result is dramatically smaller teams capable of executing much l
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As agents move past demos and into enterprise workflows, organizations are confronting the governance, infrastructure and operational problems posed by more autonomous AI systems.
Insider Brief PRESS RELEASE — Nace.AI has announced it has raised $21.5 million in seed funding, led by Walden Catalyst with participation from General Catalyst and a group of leading institutional and angel investors. Alongside the raise, the company is launching its new product in research preview, a new model for professional work where 100+ specialized AI agents […]
If you’re an aspiring AI engineer looking to sharpen your skills, building AI agents is one of the most effective ways to get hands-on experience. AI agents represent practical applications of AI across domains, from personal assistants and recommendation systems to financial traders. Here are 10 AI agents every engineer should build. For each, you’ll […]
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