Agital, a digital marketing agency, built an AI ambassador program that actually works because they got specific where most programs stay vague - on selection, accountability, and goal-setting.

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Sidearm Sports president George Scott drove company-wide AI adoption by getting deeply fluent himself first, making AI proficiency part of every employee’s performance review, and requiring a real capability baseline before letting anyone join the AI committee.

The best AI leaders are backing their strongest individual contributors, making AI everyone's job with clear ownership, and using governance not as a brake but as the unlock that lets adoption scale.

Most employees use AI regularly, but only 2% report use cases that involve meaningful automations, because companies aren’t helping people figure out what to use AI for.

Building an AI-native engineering team isn't just about using new tools.  At Section, we use Domain-Driven Teams and the 2/2/2 framework to ship feature-complete value every six weeks. 

In 2026, AI cannot be an optional career-builder for a handful of employees – it needs to be a business expectation for everyone in the company. Klaviyo took the first step into mandating AI use in Q4 and their AI Transformation Lead shared how it went.