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Why the winners will not be the ones who spent the most on AI, but the ones who rebuilt how decisions actually get made By Michael Carroll On paper, 2026 will look like a golden year. Capital will be abundant. Governments incent you to reshore. Your board wants growth and resilience at the same time. Your CIO has a roadmap with more colored swimlanes than an Olympic pool. Yet if you are honest, you feel a different truth in your gut. You can no longer say with a straight face

The Decision Clock Dividend. How time turns into EBITDA, cash, and retained revenue. And why AI only pays when it collapses elapsed time. By Steve Frazier and Michael Carroll The meeting did not feel dramatic. That is why it mattered. A single page request lay on the table, the kind that arrives every week in every industrial company that still believes it is in control. A customer wanted a packaging change. A label tweak. A “minor” variant. They wanted it by Friday because