The ~73% of enterprise agentic-AI projects that fail share three structural gaps — no named owner, scope drift, and missing agent-level MTTD — and the 27% that succeed cluster around the inverse.

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1. 19 Apr 2026Article predates the Holding-up standard. Retroactive claim assigned on 19 Apr 2026. Initial verdict 'Partial' — spine is defensible, per-claim numeric verification deferred to +60d review. Body not rewritten per AGENTMODE_PHASE2_BRIEF §114.
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