Why we started Enterprise Autonomy

I have spent thirty-five years writing software. Ten of those years working on enterprise AI. I have deployed thousands of AI models across production environments — some of them my own, most of them for other people's businesses. I have invented 110 patented technologies. I have watched the AI industry move through cycles I don't need to name.

None of that prepared me for how badly enterprise AI is going right now.

95% of generative AI pilots never reach production. That is an MIT number, not mine. But it matches what I see. Every Fortune 500 CIO I talk to has a graveyard of pilots. Not because the models are bad. Because the architecture was never built to run inside a real business.

Meanwhile, a new category is quietly taking shape. Not chatbots. Not copilots. Not RPA. Enterprise Autonomy — teams of specialized AI workers that reason, decide, and execute real business processes end-to-end. It is being built. It is being deployed. It is being run in production. And it is being underreported, misunderstood, and drowned out by the noise of the copilot cycle.

We started Enterprise Autonomy because there is no single place tracking this shift. There are trade publications for infrastructure. There are analyst firms writing paywalled reports six months late. There are vendor blogs recycling each other's talking points. There is no publication, until now, whose only job is to cover autonomous enterprise AI seriously — the research, the deployments, the failures, and the frameworks.

This publication has a simple editorial position:

• We report on what is being built, not what is being pitched.
• We take vendor contributions and press releases — clearly labeled — but we do not endorse products.
• We publish original research. We publish practitioner reporting from Fortune 500 environments. We publish honest critiques of what does not work.
• We disclose who our authors are. Every article has a published byline. Every article that references outside work links to the original source.

If you are building autonomous AI systems in an enterprise, you have something to say. If you are studying them, teaching them, or trying to deploy them, we want to publish you. Enterprise Autonomy is a publication. It is not a vendor blog. It intends to be the definitive reference for the category — and the category deserves one.

We are just getting started.

— Ajay Malik
Founder, Enterprise Autonomy