{"id":222041,"date":"2026-05-28T15:43:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-28T19:43:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/28\/the-services-budget-is-ais-biggest-prize\/"},"modified":"2026-05-28T17:50:28","modified_gmt":"2026-05-28T21:50:28","slug":"the-services-budget-is-ais-biggest-prize","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/28\/the-services-budget-is-ais-biggest-prize\/","title":{"rendered":"The Services Budget Is AI&#8217;s Biggest Prize"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pymnts.com\/artificial-intelligence-2\/2026\/the-services-budget-is-ais-biggest-prize\/\">The Services Budget Is AI&#8217;s Biggest Prize<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pymnts.com\/artificial-intelligence-2\/2026\/the-services-budget-is-ais-biggest-prize\/\">https:\/\/www.pymnts.com\/artificial-intelligence-2\/2026\/the-services-budget-is-ais-biggest-prize\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-05-28 15:43:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.pymnts.com\">www.pymnts.com<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>A new generation of AI companies is focusing on replacing traditional service contracts rather than selling software, aiming to automate tasks like accounting, legal drafting, and insurance brokerage.<\/li>\n<li>For every dollar spent on software, companies spend six on services, indicating a larger potential market in services than software.<\/li>\n<li>Many high volume, rule-based, outsourced services, like insurance brokerage and legal transactional work, are vulnerable to AI substitution due to existing vendor relationships focused on outcomes.<\/li>\n<li>Contracts for AI deployments are transitioning to measure performance by outcomes, with vendors pricing by transactions processed or a percentage of savings generated.<\/li>\n<li>Successful implementation of AI in enterprise applications requires forward-deployed engineers who understand specific workflows to integrate AI agents effectively.<\/li>\n<li>Forward-deployed engineers&#8217; roles have seen significant demand growth; for instance, Anthropic experienced a substantial increase in revenue driven by enterprise AI solutions.<\/li>\n<li>The lasting business value of AI lies in its ability to handle complex, context-dependent tasks, which form the bulk of the services budget and require accumulated institutional knowledge.<\/li>\n<li>Major AI firms are aiming to capture the larger services budget by focusing on the &#8220;judgment layer,&#8221; where services currently dominate.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Services Budget Is AI&#8217;s Biggest Prize https:\/\/www.pymnts.com\/artificial-intelligence-2\/2026\/the-services-budget-is-ais-biggest-prize\/ Publish Date: 2026-05-28 15:43:00 Source Domain: www.pymnts.com&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":222042,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.pymnts.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/AI-services-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-222041","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222041"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=222041"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222041\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":222043,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222041\/revisions\/222043"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/222042"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=222041"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=222041"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=222041"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}