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Jocelyn Sexton | June 16, 2026

Thought Leadership

(This is Part 2 of a three-part series exploring what it takes to bring true agentic AI systems into enterprise production. In Part 1, we broke down the PoC-to-Production Engineering Gap, using the commercial aviation autopilot analogy to show why 88% of AI pilots stall and why true ROI requires rewriting the operating model rather […]

Jocelyn Sexton | June 15, 2026

Thought Leadership

(This is Part 1 of a three-part series exploring what it takes to bring true agentic AI systems into enterprise production.) In early June, our team from Growth Acceleration Partners hosted an executive roundtable at the Chief AI Officer (CAIO) Summit in New York City. The room was packed with CAIOs, CTOs and senior technology […]

Paul Brownell | May 20, 2026

Thought Leadership

“It’s such a weird time to be a junior software engineer. I’m basically a proxy to Claude Code. My manager tells me what to do, and I tell Claude to do it.” — Anonymous software engineer, San Francisco That was an anonymous software engineer at a large San Francisco tech company, speaking to a reporter […]

Jocelyn Sexton | May 18, 2026

Thought Leadership

If you’ve been watching the tickers lately, you’ve probably witnessed the playing out of SaaS valuations. Giants like ServiceNow have watched their stocks take sudden, double-digit dips, contributing to steep year-to-date drawdowns. ServiceNow took a brutal 17% hit in a single session following its Q1 2026 earnings, compounding a steep 33% slide since the start […]

Paul Brownell | May 6, 2026

Thought Leadership

On April 23, 2026, ServiceNow had one of its worst trading days, the morning after its Q1 earnings release. Shares fell roughly 17–18% in a single session, triggering a wave of analyst downgrades and wiping tens of billions from its market value in hours. The convenient explanation, amplified by CNBC and echoed across the trade […]

Jocelyn Sexton | April 29, 2026

Thought Leadership

We’ve all seen the headlines. AI is supposedly coming for every job, every creative spark, and every decision-making process in the enterprise. Productivity is through the roof. Every executive team is racing to integrate “agentic” workflows into their tech stack. But after years of watching technology transform the workplace, we’re at a dangerous crossroads. Everyone […]

Growth Acceleration Partners | April 20, 2026

Thought Leadership

A few years ago, the best engineers were the ones who could lay perfect bricks, clean code, predictable output and consistent velocity. Now? The “brick” part is getting commoditized. When AI can generate scaffolds, tests and refactors in seconds, the constraint is no longer technical execution or the code itself. The new bottleneck is judgment. […]

Jocelyn Sexton | April 7, 2026

Thought Leadership

Something shifted in February. Not gradually, the way technology usually evolves, but sharply, like a switch being thrown. The AI models that struggled with 10,000 lines of code last fall suddenly handled 100,000 with ease. Then 500,000. Engineers who had been cautiously experimenting with large language models were suddenly watching them tear through entire codebases, […]

Growth Acceleration Partners | April 1, 2026

Thought Leadership

Software is entering an architectural turning point more significant than the shift from desktop to cloud. The companies that survive and thrive over the next five years will be those that reorient their products, sometimes at the deepest architectural levels, to work natively within AI ecosystems. The next wave of opportunity for SaaS companies won’t […]

Growth Acceleration Partners | April 24, 2024

Migrate & Modernize, Nearshore Solutions, Software & Data Engineering, Thought Leadership

From Infrastructure to Innovation, Tech Leaders Must Communicate Value & Retain the Right Expertise to Scale CIOs and CTOs are often in a balancing act: leveraging their technical expertise while also being strategic leaders. It’s about aligning technology investments with budgets and priorities. And you’re pursuing initiatives that achieve transformative changes alongside initiatives that enable […]