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🚨 Fresh off the press: Writer’s 2025 AI Survey reveals the obstacles facing AI adoption — and the path to transformation 🚨 Tension, division, and power struggles — for many enterprises, AI adoption has been a difficult process with lots of friction and little success. At the same time, there’s widespread optimism about generative AI among executives and employees. And the strategies for achieving real AI transformation are now clear. We surveyed 1,600 knowledge workers actively using AI — 800 C-suite execs and 800 employees — in partnership with the independent research group Workplace Intelligence. Here’s what we found:
 🔹 Conflicts, silos, and even sabotage are barriers on the path to AI adoption 🔹 AI transformation must be a collaborative effort between IT and the business 🔹 Companies with an organization-wide strategy and the right partners can become true AI-first enterprises   Download the full report, Generative AI adoption in the enterprise: https://lnkd.in/gvkMtBzA

When our most successful customers ask me to talk to other companies who are going FASTER than them on AI adoption, it's disappointing for me to admit to them — "you're state of the art right now". When our most successful enterprise executive AI champions ask me what companies I know where the CEO truly "gets it" and would sponsor broader and deeper rollouts, it's disappointing for me to admit to them — there aren't that many. Most organizations do not understand that building with generative AI requires a tremendous depth of collaboration between IT and the business. And that alignment just doesn't exist in vast majority of places. The disconnect is on full display with our survey of 1,600 knowledge workers (including 800 c-suite execs and 800 employees) that puts REAL DATA behind both the struggles and success strategies that companies must address to become an AI-native enterprise.  — which Axios wrote about today. ✅ Power struggles and poor alignment: ~2 out of 3 c-suite execs say generative AI adoption has caused division at their organization, with 1 out of 3 saying AI adoption has been a “massive disappointment”. ✅ Friction between IT and business leaders: 68% of c-suite execs say adopting generative AI has created tension between IT teams and other lines of business. 71% say that AI applications are being created in a silo. Midlevel engineers can be happy to iterate for months on the latest and great tooling — what's missing is generative AI product management. We built the answer for that. Writer is the only platform designed for the contiguous, collaborative way that IT needs to work with the business to ship generative AI — because though IT owns building with AI, the business builder knows what good looks like, what the business logic needs to be, what the guardrails need to be, what data to use, how to iterate with end users, how to maintain and get adoption on the apps. This is the path to value. Check out Megan Morrone's great piece in comments. 

🔜 Have you registered yet? Our financial services AMA is 3 days away ⏳ Finserv leaders, mark your calendars! In just 30 minutes, we'll dive into the AI use cases that are accelerating mission-critical workflows. We'll also tackle the biggest risk of AI in finance: hallucinations — and how to hedge against them. Plus, we'll share breakthrough research to help you choose a trustworthy AI solution. Join hosts Dilshoda Yergasheva and Sam Julien for Generating alpha in the age of AI: weighing rewards against risk. 📆 March 20, 1pm ET/10am PT 👉 Register now: https://hubs.ly/Q03c0JjP0

📺 On Friday, Writer CEO May Habib capped a busy week fresh from HumanX by joining Maria Bartiromo of Fox Business Network to discuss Writer’s innovation in LLMs, and how coupling breakthrough technology with a human-centric approach is critical to drive full-scale transformation. 🎤 ”The underpinning of our technology is state-of-the-art models. We’re one of a handful of companies in the U.S. that can build and train powerful models from scratch. So we DeepSeek-ed before DeepSeek, and they really validated our approach: Precision training based on synthetic data.” Watch the full interview at: https://lnkd.in/guSGgM46 

Heading to NVIDIA GTC this week? Come meet the team in person and get the latest on everything happening at Writer! We’ll be in the Exhibit Hall all week and are hosting a Happy Hour on Wednesday evening (sign up here: https://lnkd.in/gjMWiYXv) 🥂 And be sure to attend Writer CTO and Co-founder Waseem Alshikh’s session later the week! Details are here: https://lnkd.in/g6C8Fyeb Hope to see you at #GTC25! There may even be a fun surprise or two. 👀

Kicking off another big week of events and opportunities to meet the Writer team! 🚀 If you’re attending Adobe Summit this week in Las Vegas, come swing by and check out our activities: 🤝 Visit the Writer booth in the Adobe Ventures Hub at the Community Pavilion and connect with our industry experts. We’ll be here all week! 📅 March 18 at 12:00pm PT: Luncheon hosted by Writer, IBM and Adobe 📅 March 19 at 4:00pm PT: Panel session featuring: - Kevin Chung, Chief Strategy Officer, Writer - Carly Boord, Sr. Manager, Product Management, T-Mobile - Roberto Hernandez, Partner, PwC - Phil Regnault, Partner, Alliance Leader, PwC - Vaish Srivathsan, Head of Business Strategy & Operations, Adobe 📅 March 20 at 10:00am PT: Live webinar featuring: - May Habib, CEO and Co-founder, Writer - Anil Chakravarthy, President, Digital Experience Business, Adobe - Chris Colangelo, AVP, Business Tech & AI, Verizon - George Korizis, Customer Transformation Practice Leader, PwC - Nick Primola, Executive Vice President, Association of National Advertisers Register at: https://lnkd.in/g-QwweZU 🎨 Learn more about our activities at #AdobeSummit: https://lnkd.in/gPDDKCJn Hope to see you in Vegas!

We're thrilled to kick off Season 3 of Humans of AI with an inspiring conversation with Emily Fontaine, the leader of capital and AI ventures at IBM. With over 15 years of experience at the forefront of business technology, Emily has witnessed firsthand the incredible journey of AI from a niche technology to a powerful force shaping industries worldwide. Emily delves into the growing trend of corporate venture capital in AI, emphasizing the importance of smaller, open-source, and fit-for-purpose AI models. She also highlights the critical role of fostering a collaborative and listening culture within organizations. Emily believes that true innovation and the full potential of AI only come to life when teams work together, share ideas, and actively listen to each other. Join us in this episode to hear Emily's insights and be inspired by her journey. 🚀 🔗 Check it out wherever you get your podcasts! https://lnkd.in/g_JCRrmd 

🌟 A celebration of Women’s Day at Writer! 🌟 Our second annual Women’s Day celebration at Writer was truly inspiring! Hosted at our new offices in SF and NY and broadcast globally, the team came together for a day of learning, connection, and empowerment. Today’s conversations featured an incredible lineup of industry executives who shared their stories, real-world insights, and guidance for our AI community. At Writer, we’re committed to fostering an inclusive environment where women not only thrive but also lead. We believe diversity fuels innovation, and we’re proud to support and empower women at every stage of their careers. Join us in celebrating the achievements and contributions of women in tech, AI and beyond! #WomenInTech #WHM2025 #LifeAtWriter

”You're bringing a knife to a gunfight if IT collects a user story and then delivers a product to a business team. For agentic AI, you have to build very collaboratively with the business.” Writer CEO May Habib took the main stage at HumanX for some real talk on the challenges that businesses must come to grips with in their AI initiatives. May joined a distinguished panel including Babak Hodjat, CTO of AI at Cognizant, Bhavin Shah, CEO of Moveworks, and moderator Eric Schurenberg, founder of Alliance for Trust in Media, where they explored why so many AI projects fail, the need for transformative change to deliver ROI, and human factors such as workforce reskilling and change management. #HumanX2025

Big news for developers! 🔧 We're excited to announce the release of SDK 2.0, packed with powerful new features to enhance your development experience. What's New: ✨ Application retrieval: Simplified methods for retrieving no-code application metadata. ✨ Async jobs: Launch asynchronous no-code apps in a snap. ✨ Knowledge Graph integration: Associate Knowledge Graphs with chat applications for smarter interactions. ✨ Model delegation tool: Automatically delegate to domain-specific models to simplify your workflow. We’ve also migrated to a new TypeScript SDK structure, reducing dependencies and squashing bugs to make your life easier. And that’s not all — keep an eye out for streaming helpers in an upcoming version! 🔗 Read all about it in our latest Engineering Blog post: https://lnkd.in/gHg9fj6E