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One of the more interesting shifts in enterprise AI right now is how quickly the conversation is moving towards infrastructure and operations. As AI moves into core workflows, regulated data environments, and agentic systems, enterprises need governed infrastructure and inference that can operate reliably day-to-day with clear operational accountability built in from the start. As those systems scale, the operating model increasingly becomes part of the AI strategy itself. Rackspace Technology is the operator of the full enterprise AI stack, from agents to infrastructure across private cloud, hybrid cloud, and edge environments. Rackspace builds and operates governed AI infrastructure, inference, and production AI systems for organizations where sovereignty, compliance, and uptime are non-negotiable. Their forward-deployed engineers stay embedded beyond deployment to help operationalize and run AI in live environments. To learn more about where enterprise AI runs and outcomes scale, go to rackspace.com.

Blitzy is driving over 5x engineering velocity for large-scale enterprises. A publicly traded insurance provider leveraged Blitzy to build a bespoke payments processing application, an estimated 13-month project, and with Blitzy, the application was completed and live in production in six weeks. A publicly traded vertical SaaS provider used Blitzy to extract services from a 500,000-line monolith without disrupting production 21 times faster than their pre-Blitzy estimates. These aren't experiments. This is how the world's most innovative enterprises are shipping software in 2026. You can hear directly about Blitzy from other Fortune 500 CTOs on the modern CTO or CIO classified podcasts. To learn more about how Blitzy can impact your SDLC, book a meeting with an AI solutions consultant at blitzy.com. That's B-L-I-T-Z-Y dot com.

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One thing I keep seeing in enterprise AI, companies hedging across every cloud, every model, every framework, or paying a GSI for a pilot that never ends. The team's actually shipping, they've picked a lane, and they move fast. That's one of the reasons I like today's sponsor, Robots & Pencils. They've gone all in on AWS. They're an advanced tier and AWS pattern partner, and they ship production AI co-workers in 45 days. That's led to them doing some of the more interesting work I've seen on AI co-workers. And by that, I'm not talking about chatbots. I'm talking about actual agentic systems that sit inside a business architecture and do real work. That kind of focus matters if you're an enterprise leader trying to get something real into production or an AWS rep trying to move a customer from interested to deployed. Request an AI briefing at robotsandpencils.com. One conversation with robots and pencils and you'll know.

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Marketing's agent turns competitor moves into landing pages. Sales's agent enriches leads, drafts emails, and updates the CRM. Ops agent chases the paperwork and tracks the budget. Every agent has access to shared context and follows your rules about scope and approvals. It's time you add agents that feel like teammates. Hire yours at HyperAgent, built by the team at Airtable. Claim your $1,000 in inference at hyperagent.com slash aidailybrief.

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The average enterprise is spending 11 and a half million dollars on AI this year, and most of them can't prove a single dollar came back. What does AI actually look like when it produces ROI? Ask the healthcare company that just made their payment processing 320 times faster, or the law firm whose document research went from three months to ten minutes, or the contact center who reduced wait times by 99%. These are real MissionCloud customers with real results. MissionCloud is a CDW company and an AWS premier tier partner. They're the AI first, outcomes obsessed AWS experts who build AI solutions that drive your business forward. Whether you're flooded with AI ambitions but no idea where to start or six months into a deployment that's going sideways, they've seen it and they've fixed it. Stop burning your budgets on AI that doesn't produce results. Start at missioncloud.com.

This episode of the AI Daily Brief is brought to you by OutSystems, a leading agentic systems platform built for the enterprise. Organizations all over the world are building, orchestrating, and governing agentic systems on the OutSystems platform and with good reason. OutSystems' open and unified platform allows teams to architect, deliver, and scale governed agentic systems with agility. Teams of any size and technical depth can use OutSystems to build, deploy, and manage AI apps and agents quickly and cost effectively without compromising reliability and security. With OutSystems, you can rapidly launch ideas from concept to completion. It's the leading agentic systems platform that is unified, agile, and enterprise proven, allowing you to accelerate growth, reduce operational friction, and deliver real enterprise impact with AI. OutSystems, build your agentic future.

Teams to architect, deliver, and scale governed Agentix systems with agility. Teams of any size and technical depth can use OutSystems to build, deploy, and manage AI apps and agents quickly and cost effectively without compromising reliability and security. With OutSystems, you can rapidly launch ideas from concept to completion. It's the leading agentic systems platform that is unified, agile, and enterprise proven, allowing you to accelerate growth, reduce operational friction, and deliver real enterprise impact with AI. OutSystems, build your agentic future.

Robots and Pencils is already launching and scaling agentic and generative AI in production at large enterprises in weeks. AWS advanced tier partner, more than doubled in a year. And they're hiring — 50 open roles. If you're someone who knows this moment is different, who wants to be inside it not watching it, this is worth a look. At Robots and Pencils, the best ideas win, and the team is purposefully kept super high quality. This is the kind of place you look back on as the best decision you ever made. Take a look at robotsandpencils.com/careers.

What does AI actually look like when it produces ROI? Ask the health care company that just made their payment processing 320 times faster, or the law firm whose document research went from three months to ten minutes, or the contact center who reduced wait times by 99%. These are real MissionCloud customers with real results. MissionCloud is a CDW company and an AWS premier tier partner. They're the AI first, outcomes obsessed AWS experts who build AI solutions that drive your business forward. Whether you're flooded with AI ambitions but no idea where to start, or six months into a deployment that's going sideways, they've seen it and they've fixed it. Stop burning your budgets on AI that doesn't produce results. Start at missioncloud.com.

This episode of the AI Daily Brief is brought to you by OutSystems, a leading agentic systems platform built for the enterprise. Organizations all over the world are building, orchestrating, and governing agentic systems on the OutSystems platform and with good reason. OutSystems' open and unified platform allows teams to architect, deliver, and scale governed agentic systems with agility. Teams of any size and technical depth can use OutSystems to build, deploy, and manage AI apps and agents quickly and cost effectively without compromising reliability and security. With OutSystems, you can rapidly launch ideas from concept to completion. It's the leading agentic systems platform that is unified, agile, and enterprise proven, allowing you to accelerate growth, reduce operational friction, and deliver real enterprise impact with AI. OutSystems, build your agentic future.