In this edition of Konversation, we look at how BYOA (Bring Your Own Agent) is shaping up to be the new BYOD, what leaders told us that could actually derail their AI investments over the next few years, and where enterprises are quietly leaking AI spend. We also share our new eBook on AI-Harness Engineering, an upcoming book launch in Bengaluru, and a new home for Konversation on our website.
Top 3 Market Insights:
- BYOA (Bring Your Own Agent) Is the New BYOD: Like Bring Your Own Device, a similar pattern is now forming around agents with the launch of OpenAI’s Dots and Meta’s Muse in recent weeks. These connect to an individual’s apps and accounts, remember how they work, and keep tasks moving without being prompted each time. With our OpenAI partnership, we are now helping clients prepare for this BYOA reality with a focus on architecture, governance, and security.
- What Could Derail AI Investment (as per leaders)? At our AI Leadership Xchange in Dallas last month, we asked CXOs what could actually stop their organizations from investing in AI over the next 3-5 years. The answers were consistent across leaders: rising AI costs, regulatory concerns, and cultural resistance to change. Notably, AI model capability was not their concern. Our Dallas roundtable insights whitepaper will be out soon. Stay tuned!
- Enterprises Rethinking AI Spend: Heard of companies handing Copilot and ChatGPT licenses to everyone? According to the news, Uber blew through its entire annual AI budget by April (can someone verify this, please?). In most companies, routine work like tagging and classification still gets sent to premium AI models (one of the biggest AI cost leaks). This is basically paying paragraph rates for one-word answers. Enterprises have started rethinking/restructuring their AI spend. We’re helping a construction company put the right AI gateway in front of each AI use case. Exploring something similar? Reach out to us.
Konverge.AI – Under the Hood
Our Work Highlights:
- Our AI-Harness Engineering eBook is live now: AI = Model + Harness. The model was never the hard part; the system around it is what decides whether agents will reach production or not. The book covers what that system needs to hold up under enterprise audit, along with a ninety-day plan you can start before choosing any platform. Read it here.
- The Cognitive Road: Book Launch, Bengaluru, India, Oct 22: What will shape autonomous mobility the most, data, AI, safety, infrastructure or trust? The Cognitive Road, co-authored by Himajit Aithal and our Co-founder & CTO Ketan Paithankar, takes on that question, and we are launching it on October 22 in Bengaluru alongside 25+ senior executives from Mercedes-Benz, Volvo, NVIDIA, Bosch and others. Register to attend.
- Agentic AI for Home Loan Sourcing: For one of the leading non-banking financial companies, we built an agentic sourcing layer that handles complex home loan queries end-to-end, runs eligibility and EMI calculations against live systems, and works across web and WhatsApp. The result is faster onboarding at scale without adding headcount. To know more, reach out to our practice team.
- Our Konversation Now Has a New Home: Every edition of Konversation is now live on our website, so you can catch up on past insights, share a specific edition with your team, or point a colleague to the archive. Browse every edition our newsletter here.
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