We're excited to announce the launch of North Automations , Cohere's latest step in enabling enterprises to close the AI ROI gap with ease, control, and governance built in from the ground up. The rapid proliferation of AI agents across the enterprise has created a new set of challenges that are widening the gap between agentic AI potential and its practical implementation. These challenges include: Narrow workstreams: One-off agents solve narrow tasks vs end-to-end workflows that emulate how employees actually work across systems and teams. Lack of governance: Fragmented implementation of agents across the business prevents the ability to govern usage at scale. Cost: Using the same model across all steps in a workflow results in overblown budgets, where routing the right model for each step of the process is becoming a critical necessity. These market challenges are yielding limited ROI. "Current AI agent implementations are mostly built with individual, task-specific agents that provide incremental benefits, but create a value gap for enterprise-scale AI adoption," notes Gartner research analysts Anushree Verma and Alastair Woolcock in the Agentic AI Hype Cycle 2026 report. …