Execution debt is reaching the customer.

This edition traces how execution debt — the accumulated gap between what an organization deployed and what it actually made operational — is now reaching the customer. AI pilots that never absorbed into the operating system surface as broken handoffs, lost context, and work that has to be redone by a person. The opportunity is not more capability. It is in the handoff where context travels, the permission that defines where AI may act, and the work that happens after the model answers. Leaders who close that gap first will compound the value of everything they have already built.