AI agents will do the majority of work inside enterprises within 5 years. Not assist with it. Do it.
Companies that deploy AI agents at scale will:
Companies that don't will be disrupted. Not eventually. Immediately.
Your competitors will simply move faster, think bigger, and deliver better, at lower cost. The gap will be insurmountable.
Your tech stack is a mix of modern SaaS, legacy systems from the 90s, and custom-built tools that no one fully understands. These systems don't talk to each other. They're connected by humans who manually move data between them.
To become AI-first, you need AI agents operating across all these systems. But enterprises weren't designed for AI agents to work inside them. The infrastructure doesn't exist.
Think about how work actually gets done in your company today.
When you buy a software system, your engineering team spends months building APIs, setting up data pipelines, managing OAuth tokens. Every connection is a project. Every integration needs security review. Three months minimum, if you're lucky.
When you hire a human, you give them a laptop with your security stack—VPN, SSO, YubiKey—and they can access everything through their browser. Click into Salesforce, copy data, paste into SAP, send an email. Simple.
But AI breaks this entirely.
You can't treat it like software because you'd need to build custom integrations for every system it touches. At three months per integration, transforming 1,000 processes would take decades.
You can't treat it like a human because AI doesn't have fingers to tap your YubiKey. It can't wake up a sleeping laptop. It can't receive an SMS for two-factor authentication. The entire security model assumes a physical person sitting at a physical desk.
So we're stuck. AI can do the work, but it can't access the work.
Stop thinking integration. Start thinking onboarding.
AI agents are digital employees working in the cloud. They need:
Instead of writing pipelines, give AI agents the same interface access you'd give an offshore team, but running in secure cloud environments where thousands can work in parallel.
When AI agents can access systems like digital employees:
Every day you delay this decision, mid-market companies with less security controls pull further ahead. They're not smarter. They’re just setup better for Agentic automation.
Build the access layer for AI agents to work, or watch competitors who did make your company obsolete.
The technology exists. The business case is proven. The only bottleneck is the decision to stop forcing AI into human-shaped holes and start building for what it actually is:
A new kind of employee that will either transform your company or destroy it.
Choose transformation.