PendingPublished February 1, 2026
AI budgets will re-centralise under a single accountable executive in most mid-market firms by 2027
After two years of departmental experimentation, mid-market organisations consolidate AI spend under one owner because nobody can answer what the total spend bought.
Sourcing and reasoning
Distributed purchasing is the mechanism that produces duplicate tools. The correction is predictable and already visible in procurement behaviour.
Based on public data: Our own diagnostic data
Unresolved. This prediction is reviewed quarterly and marked Correct or Wrong in public, either way.
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