CROSS-CATEGORY: HR, Finance, and Retail All Report Agentic AI Going from Pilot to Production in Same Week — 48% HR Adoption, Plaid Foundation Model, Stripe ACP Live

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In the same week, three unrelated categories crossed from 'AI pilot' to 'AI production': HR hit 48% agentic AI adoption at large enterprises (ADP data), finance got its first domain-specific foundation model (Plaid), and retail saw major brands go live on agentic commerce infrastructure (Stripe ACP with URBN, Etsy, Coach). This is the 'crossing the chasm' moment for enterprise agentic AI — not a single category experiment but simultaneous production deployment across the Wednesday rotation categories (support/HR/finance) plus retail. The common architectural thread: domain-specific AI models trained on proprietary industry data, deployed as agents rather than features.