AI Prices Are Going Up, Up, Up - And What This Means For Enterprise AI - Josh Bersin

AI tool prices are climbing. If you haven't found one that works yet, that's actually useful information. You're not behind because you're slow. You're behind because the tools got expensive before a

AI tool prices are climbing. If you haven't found one that works yet, that's actually useful information.

You're not behind because you're slow. You're behind because the tools got expensive before anyone explained which ones actually solve real business problems — and which ones just look good in a demo.

"We bought that AI tool but nobody uses it." I hear this every week. It's not your fault. Most AI tools got sold to your IT department or your wishful thinking, not to the actual workflow where the problem lives.

Here's what's shifting: AI is finally moving into specific business functions — finance, HR, operations — instead of trying to do everything at once. That's good news for you. Narrower tools solve narrower problems. Narrower problems are easier to measure.

One practical move right now: before evaluating any AI tool, write down the one task in your business that costs the most time each week. Not a category — a specific task. That single answer tells you exactly which tool category to look at first. Everything else is noise.

You don't need a strategy overhaul. You need one win.

What's the one task you wish would just disappear from your plate this week?

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