A modern AI CoE is the operating system for enterprise AI — not just a data science team or a governance committee. The best model for most organizations is hub-and-spoke: a lean central team sets standards for governance, evals, guardrails, LLMOps, and FinOps, while business units build and scale use cases on shared platforms. In the era of LLMs and agents, the CoE’s job is to turn scattered experimentation into safe, repeatable, costdisciplined business value.practices to sustain long-term competitive advantage. By doing so, they can position themselves to thrive in an increasingly digital marketplace