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Forget LLMs: The Real AI Revolution is Small, Silent, and Already Saving Enterprises 70%

The Hidden 40%: How Sentient AI Discovers and Automates the Work No One Sees

Your best Operating Partners are drowning in portfolio company fires. Your COOs can't explain why transformation is stalling. Your Program Managers are stuck managing noise instead of mission. They're all victims of the same invisible problem. Our research reveals that 30-40% of enterprise work happens in the shadows—undocumented hand-offs, tribal knowledge bottlenecks, and manual glue holding systems together. We call it the Hidden 40%.

The Pilot Purgatory Problem: Why 80% of Innovations Die in Testing

## Executive Summary: The $4.4 Trillion Question Nobody’s Asking Every Monday morning, in boardrooms from Manhattan to Mumbai, executives review dashboards showing 47 active AI pilots. The presentations are polished. The potential is “revolutionary.” The demos work flawlessly. By Friday, they’ll approve three more pilots. By year-end, 95% will never reach production.