Why enterprise AI keeps missing its return

August 2026 · Valliance.ai

Hello there. Government gave a cabinet seat to AI policy this past month, and sovereignty is now part of the boardroom conversation. Most AI programmes are still stuck on the same return question they started with, and even the chatbot we've relied on for years might not last much longer. This issue covers what we've been saying and building.

Choosing an AI partner in Europe now comes with a question that didn't used to hold up the decision. Who controls the technology? What happens if that control changes? Writing in Computer Weekly, Rad shares his perspective.

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Anita Rajdev · Senior Value Partner - Founder · 5mins

Britain gave AI a cabinet seat.
Now comes the hard part.

Anita Rajdev on why the UK's world-class talent won't count for much until it translates into value at scale — featured in UKTN and TechRound.

How much value is waiting in the data you already have?

For Newcastle University's alumni fundraising team, agentic AI enrichment pipeline worked through all 138,613 records, taking contactable emails up 143%, from 8,167 to 19,857.

Dom Selvon · Value Partner - CTO · 5mins

How Valliance fixes the AI ROI problem

Dom Selvon joins the Tech Talks Daily podcast to discuss how most AI programmes don't fail on the tech, but because no one agreed what success looks like first.

Dan Bradshaw · Value Consultant - Creative · 5mins

The chatbot is dead. Long live the chatbot.

As we enter the age of agentic cx and the potential for true omni-channel support, what does it mean in terms of expectations, and new vendors?

Valliance News

Victoria Morrison joins Valliance as Value Partner with a core focus on growth

We're thrilled to announce that Victoria Morrison has joined Valliance as Value Partner, where she will lead growth end to end.

She will be focused on shaping and scaling the AI-native proposition behind our ambition to create more enterprise value from data and AI than any other consultancy in the world.

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Are we handing your institutional memory to the frontier labs?
Satya Nadella says companies that trust one AI for everything may not survive | 🔗 Via TechCrunch

Is AI sovereignty becoming a commercial buying criterion?
France, Germany vow to develop Palantir rival | 🔗 Via Politico

Going public could make safety impossible to walk away from
Anthropic’s IPO Filing and How It Affects Its Responsible AI Stancel | 🔗 Via aibusiness

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