During the event, we presented “AI as the Engine, Not the Accessory,” a conversation focused on one of the biggest challenges organizations face today: despite significant investments in AI over the past two years, many companies are still struggling to achieve the expected return on investment.
The reason is not primarily technological but structural. Many organizations are layering AI agents and models on top of legacy operating models instead of redesigning their businesses with AI at the core. As a result, they are optimizing existing processes rather than transforming how work gets done.
At the Salesforce Executive Experience, Alejandro De Luis, Chief Enterprise Solutions Officer, and Mariano Russo, Chief Data Officer, expanded this conversation and explored why the companies that will lead the next decade are not simply AI-enabled, but AI-native organizations designed from the ground up to operate with artificial intelligence embedded into their decision-making, workflows and customer experiences.
One of the key ideas we shared is that the challenge is no longer deploying individual AI agents. The future belongs to organizations capable of building interconnected ecosystems of specialized agents, each with a defined role, access to relevant data, decision-making capabilities and governance mechanisms aligned with business objectives.
These agent ecosystems can work together across marketing, sales, customer experience, operations, analytics and other critical business functions, creating entirely new operating models that combine human expertise with intelligent automation.
This represents a fundamental shift in digital transformation. Organizations are no longer just adopting new tools; they are rethinking how they learn, coordinate, govern and scale decisions across both people and intelligent systems.