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Corporate Australia is standing up AI. The return is not there yet.

James Thomson wrote it in the AFR on 21 August. Chanticleer: AI in corporate Australia is a mess. Your job is safe for a while yet.

https://www.afr.com/chanticleer/ai-in-corporate-australia-is-a-mess-your-job-is-safe-for-a-while-yet-20260821-p60qbm

I am not in that newsroom. I recruit the people who have to make this work.

Thomson's line, as the AFR published it: artificial intelligence is everywhere in firms except the top line, the bottom line, or the lines in between. Earnings season is not showing a real return.

That is the gap. Companies here are standing production AI up. The return is not there yet. Forward deployed engineers, applied AI engineers, and ML engineers are the ones who work in the business and try to ship it.

Sonitec staffs that work in Australia. If you are standing it up, submit the role. If you do that work, the Sonitec recruitment team is here.


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