Enterprise AI
Audit is becoming an AI-native workflow
Andera has raised a $37 million Series A led by Lightspeed, with participation from Bain Capital Ventures, A*, and Pear VC, to build AI agents for audit work. Lightspeed describes Andera as the company building an AI-native platform to automate internal audit, a function that still relies heavily on manual evidence collection, control testing, Excel […]
H. SurejaJuly 21, 2026
AI’s 2026 bottleneck will not be the model. It will be the data layer.
Confluent’s 2026 Predictions Report makes a sharp argument about the next phase of enterprise AI: the model race is no longer the whole story. After a year where agentic AI dominated data conversations, Confluent says 2026 will be about solving the barriers that made AI hard to move into production. The report opens with a […]
H. SurejaJuly 19, 2026