You Already Know How to Buy AI Agents

Thu, 05 Nov 2026 00:00:00 +0000

When a company needs more hands, it can hire, bring in a temp, or outsource the whole function. AI agents arrive through the same three doors:¹

Client-owned digital labor.
You license or build the agent and run it in-house.
Leased digital labor.
You rent agents from a third party, “in a manner akin to traditional temp staffing.”
Fully outsourced AI subdepartments.
A vendor runs an entire process, such as order fulfillment or a call center, with AI and a small team of human experts.

At least one staffing group is reorganizing around the idea. In 2025 the Adecco Group launched r.Potential with Salesforce to help companies “manage human and digital labour at scale.”² By August 2026, Adecco said half the revenue in its Adecco unit was already “agent-enabled,” in the company’s term, and it raised the goal to 70 percent by year-end.³

The First Vendor Evaluation Now Happens Inside a Language Model

Fri, 12 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000

In a 2025–26 audit, GSK tested how AI assistants describe one of its treatments for chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. Across 6,000 prompts covering nine points in a clinician’s decision process, the brand ranked first when the question was broad. When the prompt narrowed to patients starting treatment for the first time—the segment the brand is positioned to own—it dropped to fourth¹.

The mismatch matters because the audience has moved. OpenEvidence, a clinical decision-support assistant, reports daily use by more than 40 percent of U.S. physicians and 20 million queries in January 2026, up from 2.6 million in December 2024². The figures are the company’s own, but the direction matches what researchers are documenting across B2B categories: buyers brief themselves through AI tools before any salesperson knows they exist. IDC forecasts that 62 percent of traditional B2B demand generation will be AI-led by 2028³.

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You Already Know How to Buy AI Agents

The First Vendor Evaluation Now Happens Inside a Language Model