I'm Elliot Leavy — a strategist, writer and speaker. At Elsewhen I help FTSE 100 firms and public sector organisations rebuild their structures for agentic AI. I write on AI and geopolitics for The Spectator, VentureBeat and UnHerd, and track sovereign AI through the Machinepower Index.
Enterprises aren't failing at AI because the technology doesn't work. They're failing because they're bolting it onto organisations designed for a different era. The problem was never the tool. It was the structure around it.
Failure rate. The share of enterprise AI projects that never reach production or deliver meaningful business value — twice the rate of non-AI IT projects.
RAND Corporation ↗The AI gap. The annual revenue shortfall still outstanding by 2030 against what the global compute build-out costs to run.
Bain & Company ↗The pilots that go nowhere. The share of enterprise generative AI pilots delivering no measurable impact on the P&L. Only one in twenty is extracting real value.
MIT Project NANDA ↗AI doesn't take your job. It takes tasks. So the work splits in two: what agents run, and what people own. Most companies haven't drawn that line yet, because their structure still assumes every task needs a person doing it.
Strategic integration and architectural rebuilding for organisations navigating agentic transformation. Less "where do we use AI," more "which workflows have to be rebuilt so agents can run them."
Visit Elsewhen →Keynotes and panel appearances on agentic AI, the intelligence age and what it means to lead through it. Conferences, executive offsites and industry events.
Book for speaking →The GDP of AI sovereignty. A live index scoring nations on the three things AI power actually requires — watts, weights and will.
View the index →Translating AI and geopolitics into plain, actionable analysis.
The Spectator VentureBeat UnHerd Quillette Substack2026 isn't the year AI slows down. It's the year it splits. Twelve trends and five forks in the road — machinepower, agentic warfare, the enterprise rebuild, and what happens when software gets agency.
Let's work out how your business actually runs on AI — and which parts of it have to change first.