Deloitte

Deloitte surveyed 3,235 leaders across 24 countries. The gap between AI access and AI revenue is the defining enterprise crisis of 2026. Readiness assessment inside.

On May 11, 2026, OpenAI's $4 billion Deployment Company announced the acquisition of Tomoro, pulling 150 forward-deployed engineers (FDEs) into a single OpenAI-controlled enterprise services arm at a $10 billion valuation. Combined with Anthropic's parallel $1.5B services venture nine days earlier, the frontier labs have committed $5.5 billion to a Palantir-style FDE model — and they are pointing it first at the CFO. Why finance is the beachhead, what the data says about the 60% failure rate of finance AI initiatives, and two frameworks every CFO and CIO should run before the next AI services pitch lands on the desk: an FDE Investment ROI Calculator and a CFO AI Readiness Triangle.

Anthropic and OpenAI both launched PE-backed enterprise AI services firms on May 4. Combined: $11.5B. The Big Three consulting model has 18 months.

Deloitte launches a dedicated Google Cloud agentic practice with 1,000+ pre-built agents and a 100K Gemini Enterprise rollout. The SI war just escalated.