5 BI staffers who put AI agents to work share what worked and what went wrong
THE SO WHAT
Personal agents are already leaking into real workflows—from bookings to procurement-style tasks—through individual experimentation, not IT rollouts. Treat this as shadow IT: set guardrails and logging now, or you'll inherit brittle, invisible dependencies later.
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