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FRAGMENTATION COSTS THE FORTUNE 500 $161B. YES, WITH A B

Duplicated effort, siloed knowledge, and slower execution all add up - and only 6% of executives can point to clear ROI from their AI investments. Individual dev productivity is up, but team-level impact is lagging. In The Teamwork Dividend Report [5], Atlassian and AWS uncover: * HOW FRAGMENTED AI leads to time lost chasing context, coordinating across tools, and resolving avoidable handoff friction. * HOW AI CAN CONNECT code, work items, documentation, goals, and operational knowledge. * WHAT A BETTER DELIVERY FLOW [6] looks like in practice.

AI ADOPTION IS NOW THE CLEAREST DIVIDING LINE IN STARTUP ECONOMICS

40% of companies heavily using AI say inflation actually _helped_ their business this year… only 12% of non-AI adopters say the same. That contrast turned up everywhere in Mercury's survey of 1,500 early-stage founders & builders: the companies leveraging AI the most are raising more, hiring differently, and reporting a different macroeconomic picture. Read Mercury's new report to explore: * The 31-point confidence gap between heavy AI adopters and everyone else * What startups spend on AI each month * What junior hiring looks like at AI-forward companies and beyond

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