India, July 25 -- A report that takes two minutes to generate and contains a fabricated number isn't productivity. It's negative value because someone now has to catch the error before it drives a sourcing decision, or, worse, nobody catches it at all.

Vishal Ranjan, founder of Claight, arrived at that view the hard way through a direct test of what Artificial Intelligence (AI) tools actually deliver when the numbers have to be right. What follows traces procurement and market intelligence through eight distinct pressure points: how success gets measured, where rework hides, why enterprise context is the real bottleneck, what actually improves reliability, what it takes to trust a recommendation, how close autonomous agents really are, w...