What sorts of strategic changes are you making to your IT budget for 2026? Are you reallocating funding from areas like infrastructure or talent in response to evolving priorities related to AI?

We’ve allocated a portion of the budget toward AI licenses and initiatives; however, compared to the broader non-personnel and non-AI budget (e.g., application licenses, platforms, and related projects), the AI allocation remains relatively small. Most of the AI budget currently focuses on end-user productivity licenses, with a growing number of requests for custom Agents, a demand that appears to be expanding.

Hi, Short Answer no, AI is not mature enough to have ready solution that can be deployed quickly with ROI though take your time to run enough POC process and ensure you have clear structured use case before allocating any budget, make sure this use case have sponsor from business as well