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The brutal truth about enterprise AI: Most pilots never escape the lab. Nearly every enterprise now claims to be using AI. Dashboards show rising adoption. Pilot portfolios expand quarter after quarter. Yet when the only question that matters is asked, ""where is the EBITDA?"", the room goes quiet. Organizations do not fail at AI because they lack intelligence. They fail because they refuse to change how authority flows. AI is not about automation. It's about deciding what systems are allowed to decide. When agents begin to price, route, escalate, and resolve without waiting for human approval, the organization's internal physics change. Work no longer queues in inboxes. Exceptions surface immediately. Decisions compress from weeks into minutes. But only if someone is willing to let the system act. This book provides the operating system for that transition. Drawing on my experience of leading large-scale transformations across four continents, from mining operations in Australia to energy giants in Russia to public-sector entities across EMEA, this book distills what actually works when enterprises try to turn AI pilots into compounding advantage. WHAT YOU'LL LEARN: ACCELERATE: The twelve-month campaign that moves AI from pilots to production. Not a framework for thinking about transformation but a doctrine for executing it. Ten steps that compress what consulting firms stretch into multi-year engagements into a single decisive year. POWER: The economic lens that ensures autonomy aims at levers that actually move EBITDA. Five questions that separate theater from profit: where does margin hide, where does cost escalate, where does capital sleep, and where does risk compound. If agents aren't touching these, you're automating the wrong work. TRUST: The control architecture that makes delegation operable, not aspirational. Not about technology, but about redesigning approval chains, exception handling, and control points so that systems can act without waiting for humans to wake up. THE OPERATOR'S GUIDE: How each role must evolve when systems start deciding: CEO: From strategy architect to doctrine enforcer CFO: From gatekeeper to capital engineer COO: From efficiency driver to autonomy architect CHRO: From talent manager to capability builder CIO: From service provider to platform governor Board & PE Partners: From oversight to operating pressure THIS BOOK IS FOR YOU IF: You're tired of AI pilots that never ship You need EBITDA improvement, not demos You're responsible for turning capital into returns You operate in organizations where institutional memory is stronger than institutional courage You're ready to change how authority flows, not just what technology runs THIS BOOK IS NOT FOR YOU IF: You're looking for technical architecture guides You want to learn how to build AI models You believe transformation happens in slide decks You're satisfied with incremental improvements WRITTEN FOR OPERATORS, NOT TECHNOLOGISTS. No jargon about neural networks. No breathless predictions about AGI. No claims that ""AI will change everything"" without saying how. Just the operating system for the transition that's already underway, for the people whose mandate is simple: turn capital into returns. Lucio Baron is Chief of Staff at ai71 and a former McKinsey Associate Partner who led transformations across energy, mining, and public-sector entities in Europe, Russia, the Middle East, Australia, and Africa. This is what he learned.

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