Bridging the GenAI Divide - Our Take on MIT's 2025 AI Report

You've probably seen the headline by now.

"95% of organizations get zero return from GenAI."

That's not a typo - it's MIT's latest finding in their State of AI in Business 2025 report. They call it the GenAI Divide. And honestly? They're right.

Because what the report describes - high adoption, low transformation, pilots that never leave the sandbox - is exactly what we see every day inside the companies we work with.

The real problem isn't AI. It's what happens after the demo.

The Problem Behind the Pilots

MIT found that most companies stall for the same reasons: brittle workflows, static tools, and zero learning. Their words, not ours. Tools don't remember. They don't adapt. They don't improve.

So what happens? Everyone gets excited during the pilot, then quietly abandons it six months later.

We've seen this movie. That's why we built OutcomeOS™ - the agentic execution layer that learns. It runs governed workflows across CRM, ERP, HR, and Finance. It shows its work. It rolls back safely. It gets better with every run.

That's not marketing fluff. It's the difference between a pilot and production.

The "shadow AI economy" is a signal - not a threat

The report talks about employees quietly using ChatGPT or Claude at work, outside IT's control - what MIT calls the shadow AI economy.

We see that as proof of demand, not defiance. People are already crossing the divide on their own - they just need systems that can meet them where they actually work.

At BlueFolders, we take that behavior seriously. OutcomeOS builds around those real workflows - the messy, spreadsheet-and-email ones that never make it into an enterprise roadmap. Because that's where the ROI actually lives.

Where we disagree (slightly)

MIT concludes that the winners will be the "buyers, not the builders." And there's truth there. But we think the real winners are the builders who buy wisely - the ones who partner with studios, not vendors.

When enterprises stop trying to reinvent everything in-house and start co-building with partners who understand their domain, everything changes. Projects stop dying in PowerPoint. Results show up in the P&L.

That's what BlueFolders exists to do - to build with you, not for you.

What crossing the divide actually looks like

At some point, every leader hits that choice: keep running pilots or start running outcomes.

The companies that cross the divide:

• 🔹Stop chasing demos and start designing workflows.
• 🔹Stop hiring "prompt engineers" and start governing systems.
• 🔹Stop thinking of AI as a product, and start treating it like a teammate.

MIT calls this the rise of the Agentic Web - systems that learn, remember, and coordinate across platforms. That's the world OutcomeOS was built for.

Here's the bottom line

If the last five years were about "trying AI," the next five are about trusting it.

The divide isn't between companies that use AI and those that don't. It's between those who treat it like software and those who treat it like infrastructure.

At BlueFolders, we're on a mission to close that gap - to make every workflow accountable, auditable, and alive.

Because crossing the GenAI Divide isn't just about survival. It's about finally getting what AI promised us in the first place: real outcomes, delivered safely, at scale.