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Introduction A client we worked with last year built an AI agent for procurement requests. It parsed supplier documents, compared pricing, flagged compliance risks, and drafted recommendations. It worked well. But a couple of months into production, the team hit a question they did not have a good answer to: how do we measure whether the outputs are consistently good? They were doing manual spot-checks on a few cases per week.

Jakarta, Indonesia, 7 August 2026 – Artefact, a global leader in data and AI transformation, and PT Telkom Indonesia (Persero) Tbk (Telkom), Indonesia’s leading digital telecommunications company, have signed a Memorandum of Understanding to explore strategic collaboration in developing enterprise-ready data & AI solutions for organizations across Indonesia.

Carriers rely on automated systems to shape consumer outcomes, but with AI governance regimes converging, those without integrated, enterprise-wide controls are accumulating regulatory debt that regulators are about to collect. This article was originally published in P&C Magazine; to learn more about upcoming regulatory deadlines and compliance requirements, we invite you to visit the P&C website.

Europe may have lost the first phase of the artificial intelligence race. It does not control the largest cloud platforms, the most powerful foundation models, or enough of the specialised computing infrastructure on which advanced AI depends. But the next phase may be decided somewhere very different: on factory floors, in warehouses and inside machines.

“AI is not just a matter of technology but more a matter of change management.” – Arthur Garnier, IT Chief of Staff and Senior Data Scientist at Ardian Ardian is a global diversified private markets firm.

It usually starts in a meeting room. A vendor opens their laptop, types a single sentence into a chat box, and watches an agent pull data from three systems, summarise a tenant contract, flag a clause for legal review, and email the result to the asset management team. The whole thing takes ninety seconds. The room goes quiet, then someone says: “How long did that take to build?” The answer “an afternoon” is the moment most enterprise AI strategies are quietly redrawn.

AI can replace more tasks than ever. Companies that confuse those tasks with judgment risk automating away to their own advantage. In early 2026, Oracle asked employees to document their workflows and use its internal AI tools. Some of those employees were later laid off. One former senior software manager told Time that junior engineers were using AI to generate large amounts of faulty code. Senior engineers then had to work backwards through it and make it usable.

LONDON, July 2026 – Artefact today announces the appointment of Athena Vooght as CEO of Artefact UK, effective 1 August 2026. Athena succeeds co-founder Pascal Coggia, who steps down after more than a decade with the firm to pursue new business interests. The appointment comes at a formative moment as London solidifies its standing as one of the world’s premier AI hubs.

Brussels & Paris, July 23rd, 2026 – Artefact, the leading global consulting firm for data and AI transformation, today announced the acquisition of Agilytic, a well-established Belgian data and AI consulting boutique. This strategic acquisition reinforces Artefact’s footprint in Belgium, strengthens its Benelux platform, and advances its mission to help organizations across Europe and industries create tangible value with data and AI.

Executive summary As AI transitions from conversational chatbots to autonomous agentic workflows, enterprise upskilling and adoption services have become the foundational driver of AI transformation and organizational scalability. Simple prompt engineering has matured into a multi-layered discipline spanning specification, context engineering, low-code orchestration, and process redesign.