Sidearm Sports faced external pressure from partner schools asking about its AI strategy, while internal adoption was uneven, enthusiastic early adopters in some areas.
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Section is an AI workforce enablement company that helps enterprise organizations get their employees using AI. It combines adoption and coaching software with strategy support, workflow redesign and training, sold to heads of AI, executives and P&L owners. Workforce AI training programs, strategy support, workflow redesign and some GPT builds. Mostly advise.
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7 on fileMercer recognized AI's transformative potential for HR professionals but faced a build-or-buy decision on AI training for its clients.
UserTesting had strong initial AI adoption among leadership, but Head of AI Michael Domanic couldn't personally scale AI education to every team member.
Horizon Media was transforming from a media agency into a marketing-intelligence leader built around its AI operating system, and needed its entire workforce to be.
Publicis Sapient's junior analysts lacked real-world product-management experience when serving as product owners or advisors to clients.
Agital had deployed AI tools including ChatGPT, Copilot, and Gemini, but adoption was entirely ad hoc, siloed within teams, and untracked at the organizational level.
Large enterprises have invested heavily in AI tools like Microsoft Copilot and ChatGPT, yet only 8–9% of knowledge workers are genuinely AI-proficient.