From AI Experimentation to Enterprise Execution
Many enterprises have already adopted AI. Far fewer have made it core to how the business actually runs. That is the operating challenge facing leadership teams today: AI is showing up in teams, tools and workflows, but the enterprise itself has not been redesigned to capture its full value.
Publicis Sapient helps organizations close that gap. Through a People + Products model, we combine deep human expertise with enterprise AI platforms to help businesses modernize legacy systems, build agentic workflows and run operations more intelligently. The goal is not more pilots. It is measurable business execution.
The readiness gap is now the real AI problem
Publicis Sapient’s 2026 Global Enterprise AI Report makes the challenge clear. AI is already present across large organizations: 73% of decision-makers say AI is used regularly or across most business processes. Yet only 10% say AI is core to how their business operates. Nearly half believe AI is already capable of meeting today’s business needs, while 42% say their organizations are not set up to capture its value.
In other words, the issue is no longer whether AI works. The issue is whether the enterprise is ready to work with AI at scale.
Many organizations still run on fragmented systems, disconnected workflows and operating models built for a slower era. Gains remain isolated in functions or use cases instead of compounding across the business. That is why AI adoption alone does not create advantage. Enterprises need the systems, workflows, governance and delivery model to move from experimentation to execution.
A People + Products approach built for enterprise reality
Publicis Sapient’s approach is grounded in a simple belief: the greatest value comes from combining human expertise and judgment with intelligent technology. Our People + Products model brings together experienced strategists, product thinkers, engineers, designers and data and AI specialists with purpose-built platforms designed for enterprise-scale transformation.
This is how organizations move beyond isolated use cases. Human teams provide business understanding, delivery discipline and change leadership. AI platforms provide speed, context, orchestration and repeatability. Together, they enable enterprises to redesign how work gets done, modernize the technology estate beneath it and create outcomes leaders can measure.
That model is reinforced by Publicis Sapient’s SPEED capabilities: Strategy, Product, Experience, Engineering, and Data & AI. Rather than treating AI as a standalone technology initiative, SPEED connects business priorities to product thinking, experience design, engineering execution and data-driven intelligence. The result is end-to-end transformation that is built to scale.
Three execution challenges. Three enterprise AI platforms.
Most enterprises trying to scale AI face a common set of barriers. They need to build intelligent workflows that fit real business processes. They need to modernize legacy systems that slow change and trap critical business logic in aging technology. And they need to operate increasingly complex environments with greater resilience, efficiency and speed. Publicis Sapient addresses those challenges through three complementary platforms.
Sapient Bodhi: from experimentation to agentic workflows
Sapient Bodhi enables organizations to design, build, orchestrate and track intelligent agents and AI workflows at scale. It is built for enterprises that want to move beyond one-off generative AI use cases toward production-ready systems that can support real business work.
Bodhi helps organizations operationalize AI with the orchestration, context and governance required for enterprise environments. That matters because many businesses already know where AI could create value; what they lack is a practical way to make those workflows reliable, scalable and aligned to how the organization runs.
The impact is already visible in regulated, high-value environments. A leading pharmaceutical company used Bodhi to transform its content production process, accelerating content creation by 75% and reducing costs by up to 45%. Publicis Sapient has also deployed a scalable generative AI solution for personalized marketing content generation in pharma, supporting international expansion, localization and repurposing while reducing project content creation costs by an estimated 35% to 45%.
Sapient Slingshot: modernizing the systems that hold the business back
AI cannot become core to the business if the core is locked inside fragile, costly legacy environments. Sapient Slingshot is designed to modernize and build core enterprise software at scale by applying AI to one of the hardest problems established organizations face: decades of accumulated technical debt.
Slingshot reads, interprets and extracts business rules from legacy systems so enterprises can preserve institutional knowledge while accelerating modernization. It delivers up to 99% code-to-spec accuracy and can accelerate delivery timelines by as much as 3x. Its Enterprise Context Graph creates a living map that connects code, architecture and data to business rules, tribal knowledge and operational dependencies, helping teams modernize with greater confidence and traceability.
For enterprises, this is not just a technology upgrade. It is a way to unlock the operational foundation AI needs.
Results show what that looks like in practice. A major healthcare organization leveraged Sapient Slingshot to compress a ten-year COBOL modernization effort into three years. In another healthcare modernization effort, Publicis Sapient enabled a large healthcare benefits provider to modernize more than 10,000 legacy COBOL screens with 3x faster delivery and a 50% reduction in modernization costs. The platform has also demonstrated the ability to turn 3 million lines of COBOL into clear specifications in just eight weeks.
Sapient Sustain: autonomous IT operations for a more resilient enterprise
As enterprises scale AI and digital operations, IT environments become more fragmented, distributed and difficult to manage. Traditional automation often lacks the context and coordination required to operate effectively across these environments. Sapient Sustain addresses that challenge with AI-enabled autonomous IT operations and managed services.
Sapient Sustain uses agentic AI to detect issues early, resolve incidents autonomously and prevent recurring failures. Built for legacy and modern ecosystems alike, it helps organizations shift from reactive support to intelligent, self-healing operations. Its capabilities include an enterprise context graph, self-healing workflows, a consolidated knowledge base and predictive models that surface issues before they affect the business.
This creates a new operating model in which AI agents and human expertise work together inside defined guardrails. Businesses can reduce manual effort, improve resilience and lower operational debt while maintaining control.
A global auto manufacturer used Sapient Sustain to reduce operational costs by 40% and achieve a 62%+ same-day issue resolution rate. In a business-critical automotive environment, this shift also supported an 80% move from reactive to proactive operations while maintaining 99.99% platform uptime.
What enterprise execution really requires
For many leaders, the next phase of AI is not about adding more tools. It is about changing how the enterprise operates. That means connecting workflows across functions, modernizing systems that constrain change and building a model where human judgment and AI-driven execution reinforce one another.
Publicis Sapient is purpose-built for that challenge. With more than 30 years of digital business transformation experience, 20,000 people worldwide and platforms shaped by deep enterprise context, we help organizations move from ambition to measurable impact. Our work is designed for enterprises that need AI to do more than inspire experimentation. They need it to improve delivery, reduce cost, accelerate modernization and strengthen how the business runs every day.
The organizations that win with AI will not be the ones with the most pilots. They will be the ones that redesign work, technology and operations to make AI part of the enterprise core. That is the shift from experimentation to execution. And that is where Publicis Sapient delivers.