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SEPTEMBER 2026 ISSUE

THE CLOVER

Past the Agentic AI Pilot

Getting an agentic AI pilot to work is the easy part. Keeping it running in production, without ballooning costs or ungoverned decisions, is where most programs stall.

 

The key is evolving your operating model on the way; the blueprint that defines how your enterprise governs, funds, builds, and scales new technology. Learn where to start evolving it today for the Agentic Future.

 

And explore our UiPath FUSION sessions where we're getting into all of it live below.

 

Let's dive in.

 

▶ FEATURED GUIDE

      The Agentic AI Operating Model: Six Pillars That Decide Whether Your AI Program Scales or Stalls

       

      Gartner expects more than 40% of agentic AI projects to be canceled by 2027. Talk to any Intelligent Automation CoE that's struggled to make the jump from RPA to AI, and they'll point to the same culprit: the operating model. Here is how to evolve your operating model for the agentic AI future.

      Build the Op Model That's Evolved for Agentic AI →

      ▶ FEATURED AGENTIC AI SUCCESS STORY

          How Agentic AI Invoice Processing Caught $165M in Duplicate Invoices

           

          A major construction and property investment company automated its invoice processing, cutting manual effort per invoice from about 30 minutes down to under 5, an 83% drop, while processing more than $475M in approved payments through the new solution.

          See how they did it →

          ▶ FEATURED AGENTIC AI SUCCESS STORY

              Modernizing Venture Capital Investment Management with Automated Reconciliation

               

              A national accounting and advisory firm now runs automated reconciliation across venture capital investment documents and schedules of investments. The solution onboards clients faster at 90% accuracy across multiple document types, tracks and compares investment documents and flags discrepancies, and gives their team better visibility into their clients’ investment lifecycle.

              See how they did it →

              UiPath FUSION 2026

              ▶ FEATURED EVENT

                Mark Your Calendar for Live Ashling Sessions at UiPath FUSION

                 

                We're bringing the bar cart to FUSION this year, with a full agenda of sessions on where agentic AI actually delivers.

                SEPT 23 @ 7:30–9:00 AM PT • MEETING ROOM 04

                  Bloody Brilliant: What Happens When Hyperscalers Mix

                    Hyperscalers bring the compute, models, and infrastructure; UiPath brings the orchestration that puts agentic AI to work inside real enterprise processes. This session unpacks the better-together story — where each platform's strengths compound the other's, and what it means for scaling agentic AI beyond pilots.

                     

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                      SEPT 24 @ 7:30–9:00 AM PT • MEETING ROOM 04

                        Bloody Good Operating Model

                          Pilots prove agentic AI works; scale proves whether your organization is built to run it. This session breaks down the governance, orchestration, and human-plus-AI structures needed to scale agents safely instead of into ungoverned sprawl.

                           

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                            SEPT 23 @ 12:00-12:15 PM PT • VISION STAGE

                              The Orchestration Layer: How ADT Combines Rules and Reasoning at Scale with Maestro & Gemini

                                Most enterprises treat RPA and agentic AI as a choice; ADT treated it as a design opportunity, building a hybrid orchestration approach that pairs UiPath Maestro's deterministic control with Google Gemini's reasoning to resolve exceptions neither could handle alone. This session walks through ADT's cash reconciliation challenge, the architecture decisions behind it, and a practical framework for when to automate, when to reason, and when to combine both.

                                 

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                                  SEPT 23 @ 6:00-8:00 PM PT • THE DELILAH WYNN LAS VEGAS

                                    Ashling Palooza is Back!

                                      We're taking over Delilah at the Wynn Las Vegas for a night of gilded glamour. It's every reason to stay up past your bedtime.

                                       

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                                        Programmatic Transformation at Ashling

                                        ▶ VIDEO

                                            Business Value First: How Ashling Approaches Automation & AI

                                              Too many agentic AI and automation efforts start with the tool and work backward to the value. Ashling flips that. We start with the business outcome, then bring the strategy, technology, and people together to get there.

                                               

                                              In this video, Ashling leaders share how we bridge the gap between strategic management consulting and boutique software implementation, why we treat automation as a program rather than a project, and what it takes to set clients up for long-term sustainable success.

                                              Watch the full video →

                                              ▶ ALL EVENTS

                                                Upcoming In-Person Events

                                                SEPT 16-17 • MONTREAL

                                                  ALL IN Montreal: Canada's Largest AI & Tech Event

                                                    Join Ashling at ALL IN Montreal from September 16-17. Across four stages, more than 200 speakers will share their insights, research, and real-world experiences on topics like AI and Society, Applied AI and Business Transformation, The Frontiers of AI, and Data and Infrastructure.

                                                     

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                                                      SEPT 15-17 • SAN DIEGO

                                                        Shared Services Outsourcing Week

                                                          Fresh off the heels of a successful 30th Anniversary edition in March, the Shared Services & Outsourcing Week (SSOW) conference continues to define the future of Global Business Services (GBS) and shared services. Now, the priority is clear: move beyond initiating change to delivering sustainable, measurable value, without exhausting teams or eroding stakeholder trust.

                                                           

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                                                            SEPT 20-22 • ORLANDO

                                                              SS&C Deliver

                                                                SS&C Deliver is where the people running financial services and healthcare operations come together to see what's next in digital transformation.

                                                                 

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                                                                  NOV 17-20 • SAN FRANCISCO

                                                                    Microsoft Ignite

                                                                      Microsoft Ignite is where 30,000+ IT and enterprise leaders come to see what's next in AI, cloud, and security. Ashling is there for the part that comes after the keynote, turning agentic AI and intelligent automation into programs that actually run in production, with a business case behind every build.

                                                                       

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                                                                          Have a use case in mind? Let's pressure-test it.

                                                                          Bring us 3 - 5 processes you're considering for automation and agentic AI. We'll tell you whether it's worth building, what it would take, and what to do instead if it isn't.

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