1、Seizing the agentic AI advantage A CEO playbook to solve the gen AI paradox and unlock scalable impact with AI agentsAlexander Sukharevsky Dave Kerr Klemens Hjartar Lari Hmlinen Stphane Bout Vito Di Leo Guillaume Dagorret June 2025 Contents Foreword by Arthur Mensch,CEO of Mistral AI 3At a glance 4C

2、hapter 1:The gen AI paradox:Widespread deployment,minimal impact 5Chapter 2:From paradox to payoff:How agents can scale AI 11Chapter 3:AI transformation at a tipping point:The CEO mandate in the agentic era 22Conclusion 26Seizing the agentic AI advantage2Forewordby Arthur Mensch,CEO of Mistral AI We

3、re at a moment when gen AI has entered every boardroom,but for many enterprises,it still lingers at the edges of actual impact.Many CEOs have greenlit experiments,spun up copilots,and created promising prototypes,but only a handful have seen the needle move on revenue or impact.This report gets to t

4、he heart of that paradox:broad adoption with limited return.The current diagnosis is this:Today,AI is bolted on.But to deliver real impact,it must be integrated into core processes,becoming a catalyst for business transformation rather than a sidecar tool.Most deployments today use AI in a shallow w

5、ayas an assistant that sits alongside existing workflows and processesrather than as a deeply integrated,engaged,and powerful agent of transformation.Agentic AI is the catalyst that can make this transition possible,but doing so requires a strategy and a plan to successfully power that transformatio

6、n.Agents are not simply magical plug-n-play pieces.They must work across systems,reason through ambiguity,and interact with peoplenot just as tools,but as collaborators.That means CEOs must ask different questions:not“How do we add AI?”but“How do we want decisions to be made,work to flow,and humans