How do you know whether AI is making your company smarter rather than simply filling dashboards with impressive activity?

In this episode of AI at Work, I speak with Michael Speranza, CEO of Kantata, about why familiar productivity metrics may be giving business leaders an incomplete picture of AI ROI. Companies can measure time saved, tasks completed, and documents generated, but those figures say little about whether AI is improving commercial decisions, creating revenue, or producing better client outcomes.

Michael introduces the idea of the expertise compounding rate. This measures how effectively a company captures, synthesizes, shares, and builds upon the knowledge created through its projects and people. For professional services firms, that knowledge can include client conversations, previous deliverables, staffing decisions,  ...