Companies Are Hiring Agencies to Build AI Agents, Not Internal Teams

Neil Patel reports that companies are outsourcing AI agent development to agencies and consultants — complicating the narrative that traditional services firms are being disrupted by AI.

Despite widespread predictions that AI would kill the consulting industry, companies are increasingly turning to agencies and consultants to build their AI agents rather than doing it in-house, as @neilpatel observed. The pattern suggests that AI agent development is complex enough — and evolving fast enough — that most organizations lack the internal expertise to execute.

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