The value in the AI era is shifting from optimization to reinvention.

Most companies are still using AI to automate tasks and improve workflows. The bigger prize lies further ahead: reinventing value chains and building entirely new AI-native businesses.

That is where CI&T's core offerings are designed to operate — installing new operational capacity inside established companies, redesigning the core, and building new AI-native businesses that move with radical speed and measurable time-to-value.

THE WORK THAT
MATTERS NOW


- Not reports.

- Not pilots.

- Not innovation theater.

& The work that becomes business.
01/05

THE SHIFT

The market has moved past productivity.

For years, enterprise AI has been framed as a productivity story: copilots, workflow acceleration, incremental gains. That story matters — but it is no longer where the greatest strategic value concentrates.

The value is moving from optimizing what already exists, to redesigning how the business operates and creating businesses that were previously impossible.

As the market crosses into the reinvention era, the winners will be the companies that use AI not only to optimize what they already have, but to redesign how the business operates — and to build entirely new businesses that only become possible because AI exists.

That is the side of the chasm where CI&T plays.

02/05

THE FRAMEWORK

FORRESTER · THE PROCESS CHASM

Gaining the benefits of generative AI will require firms to reinvent their products and operations.

The market starts on the left with task automation and workflow augmentation. The real discontinuity happens across the process chasm — where the opportunity is no longer just efficiency or effectiveness, but new revenue and margin structures, new operating models, and the long-term perpetuity of the business.

Productivity optimization era
Reinvention era
Business impact
Automate individual tasks
Automate individual tasks with AI copilots and agents.
Business case
Efficiency
Augment end-to-end workflows
Integrate production steps with AI-powered apps and agents.
Business case
Effectiveness
Process chasm
Reengineer value chains
Rebuild value chains with AI-native structures, skills, partnerships and production processes.
Business case
New revenue & margin structures
Disruptive opportunity
Invent new business models
Form and leverage AI-native ecosystems to build new businesses and operating models.
Business case
Growth · Relevance · Perpetuity
Time
(years)

FRAMEWORK

Forrester · Productivity era → Reinvention era

VISUAL INTERPRETATION BY CI&T

CI&T plays on the right side of the chasm — by design, and with two offerings purpose-built for the two right-side quadrants.

03/05

WHERE WE PLAY

Two Offerings for the
Reinvention Era.

CI&T's response to the shift is organized around two core offerings, each anchored in one of the two high-value quadrants on the right side of the framework above. Together, they define where we believe the next decade of enterprise advantage will be won.

Reengineer value chains

Agentic Enterprise Reinvention

Agentic Enterprise Reinvention helps established companies redesign the core of how they operate. We do not stop at advisory or isolated AI use cases. We install new operational capacity inside real value streams, enabling companies to move from legacy ways of working to agentic-native operations - with radical speed and measurable time-to-value.


Value stream by value stream. Capacity installed, not described. Measured against baseline, not against a slide.

Invent new business models

AI-Native Business Building

AI-Native Business Building helps established companies create entirely new businesses that only make sense because AI exists. These are not features, pilots, or digital extensions of the current business. They are new growth engines - AI-native businesses with their own operating logic, economic model, and path to scale.


New businesses, not new features.
Born
inside the enterprise, governed with venture discipline.


One reinvents the core business that exists today. 
The other builds the next business the company will need tomorrow.

Together, these two offerings cover the full territory of enterprise transition in the AI era. Not adaptation at the margins.
The work of crossing the chasm and operating on the right side of the opportunity.

04/05

SYSTEM

A proprietary system for turning AI ambition into operating capacity.

Business Builders is not a workshop, a lab, or a transformation deck. It is a building system designed to move from strategic intent to installed capability.

We combine enterprise-native execution with AI-native design, using proprietary instruments that help us understand the business, shape the opportunity, build the solution, and install it where value is created.

01

Spark

Strategic Intelligence

Identifies, pressure-tests, and shapes AI business opportunities with context — not generic ideation.

02

AI Lab

Build environment

Where AI concepts are tested against real business constraints, real users, real data, and real operating conditions.

03

Enterprise Genome

Working model

A working model of how the organization actually runs — systems, processes, incentives, decisions, constraints, and value flows.

04

Deploy
Corridor

Path to adoption

The path from a working solution to an adopted capability inside the enterprise core.

05

Selective Integration by Design

Integration discipline

Deciding what must connect to the core, what must remain independent, and what should evolve over time.

06

Agentic
Lean

Operating model

Lean adapted to a world where work is executed by people, agents, and systems together.

07

Vertical IP Engine

Compounding

A way to compound domain knowledge, patterns, assets, and reusable components across builds in the same industry.

08

CI&T Flow

Operating lens

The lens for how decisions, work, capital, data, and value move through the system.

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WHY CI&T

We know how enterprises actually work. Now we are rebuilding how they will work next.

CI&T has spent decades building inside the enterprise core: modernizing platforms, redesigning journeys, connecting systems, improving flow, and turning strategy into shipped products.

That experience matters more now, not less.


AI-NATIVE STARTUPS
may understand the technology.
TRADITIONAL CONSULTANCIES

may understand the boardroom.


CI&T
connects strategy, AI, product, engineering, operations, change, and adoption inside the same build motion.

That is where CI&T plays.

Business Builders brings CI&T's enterprise-native execution into the AI era — creating new AI-native businesses and reinventing the operating core of companies that already run at scale.

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