The speed at which generative AI has become a presence in our everyday lives is astonishing—it burst onto the scene just a few years ago with the release of tools such as ChatGPT and Perplexity, and now it’s everywhere. There’s Apple Intelligence in new iPhones, AI-generated summaries in Google search results, AI-powered chatbots on seemingly every ecommerce website, and the list goes on.

Business applications, while not receiving the same mainstream attention, are also benefiting. Late last year the term “agentic” went viral, referring to technologies that use large language models (LLMs) and other AI capabilities to query corporate information and take context-appropriate actions. That’s only one way AI can make business units more productive and data more useful and accessible using technology that’s available today—and in many cases, already running in your organization.

Just add imagination, because if you can envision a use case, odds are the means to execute are within your grasp.