Insights
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There’s an uncomfortable truth sitting at the heart of digital product development in 2026. Your biggest competitive threat probably isn’t a rival with a superior product. It’s one that can build, test, and learn faster than you.
Launching an AI pilot is not the difficult part. Turning that pilot into something useful, measurable and safe enough to run inside the business is where many firms are now getting stuck.
Nearly 1 in 3 employees across the UK and Europe are actively sabotaging their company’s AI strategy. Not dragging their feet. Not quietly ignoring new tools. Deliberately undermining the rollout.
A new breed of systems — what people are increasingly calling agentic AI — is pushing artificial intelligence from a tool for insight into something that actually takes action. Not advising on what should happen. Doing it.
The era of the sub-£80 smartphone may be over. With component economics shifting, entry-level handsets are increasingly considered “permanently uneconomical” to manufacture. A memory chip shortage fuelled by AI data centres is now expected to run through 2027, and consumers will feel it in their wallets long before the fabs catch up.
In 2026, your audience doesn’t type a query and scroll through ten blue links. They ask an AI agent a question and get a direct answer. We’ve moved from a Library Model, where you walk in and find the right book, to a Concierge Model, where an AI hands you exactly what you need.
We are officially entering the era of Agentic Retail. We aren’t just talking about smarter algorithms; we’re talking about AI agents that have moved from the passenger seat to the steering wheel.
Maverick Partners is delighted to confirm our reappointment to the Digital Outcomes and Specialists 7 (DOS7) framework—building on our successful inclusion in DOS6 & DOS5. We are listed in Lot 1 (User Research, Analysis and Design) and Lot 3 (Specialist Delivery), highlighting the breadth of our capabilities across digital services.
They’re calling it the “biggest upgrade in a decade,” We’re moving from a digital paper map to a full-blown AI travel partner.
The era of the “wow” gadget is officially on life support. This year was all about the “IQ Era” — the tech is finally doing the heavy lifting in the background.
