10 guidelines for successfully scaling AI

There are plenty of individual AI success stories across the enterprise, but scaling AI continues to be a challenge. Data from McKinsey’s “ The state of AI in 2026: On the road to ROI ” survey shows that four in five respondents report that AI has improved individual productivity. The survey also found that in organizations with annual revenue of at least $1 billion, 40% are scaling AI agents and 31% are scaling software coding agents.