AI Agents Execute Deals in Minutes While Leadership Remains Bottleneck
Source: The Answer Economy
The real constraint in AI deployment is organizational approval, not computational speed. An ad-tech founder demonstrated AI agents completing a $15,000 media negotiation in four minutes, yet humans still required sign-off—a process that likely takes days or weeks and erases the operational advantage entirely. Companies haven't redesigned decision-making authority for AI systems; they've added friction to a process that's now orders of magnitude faster, creating waste where machines do the work and executives rubber-stamp the results.