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at position 85–90%
31 slides where a page of type problem statement falls in the 85–90% range of its deck.
2024 Air Street Capital The State of AI Report 2024
“Is RLHF breeding sycophancy?”
Anthropic has zeroed in on RLHF, arguing that SOTA AI assistants show consistent sycophantic behavior (e.g. biased feedback, being swayed by factually incorrect prompts, conforming to beliefs, mimicki
2025 The AI Dossier
“Automating technology and telecom service activities”
Agentic AI can manage key service lifecycle functions—including customer support, network operations, and billing—operating with minimal human intervention to improve efficiency and scalability.
2025 The AI Dossier
“Efficient marketing spend”
Agentic AI systems can help media and entertainment companies get more value from their marketing spend by forecasting financial outcomes, evaluating ROI, and running budget scenarios to optimize grow
2025 The AI Dossier
“AI-supported budget allocation”
Agentic AI systems can inform and optimize global, regional, and national marketing budget allocations across cost centers, brands, content types, and performance channels.
2025 The AI Dossier
Content creation with AI
Content creation can be facilitated and enhanced with AI tools that minimize the need for manual editing and time-consuming content management.
2021 Air Street Capital The State of AI Report 2021
“Regulating AI systems presents unique technical, economic and legal challenges”
Although the AIA is a step in the right direction, many feel the EU is rushing a legislation on technical issues even the scientific community doesn't understand.
€1.6B-€3.3B · Compliance costs
International Comparison of Australia’s Freight and Supply C
“There are good statistics on Australia’s freight task by mode, but not by either product / commodity or supply chain archetype”
As identified by the National Freight and Supply Chain Strategy, additional data is a critical enabler to improve the nation's productivity
~738b tkm · Freight task by mode
Rail industry cost and revenue sharing (2011)
“Volume Incentive: Network Rail receives a bonus payment for providing capacity growth beyond a baseline annual growth rate”
Some stakeholders have commented that the volume incentive is opaque and does not really have an impact on Network Rail's behaviour, and in addition the level of payment (even if reached) is too small
Accelerated Access Review UK Mapping
“The digital health pathway is not fit for purpose with a number of significant barriers to widespread adoption”
The digital health pathway is not fit for purpose with a number of significant barriers to widespread adoption.
Accelerated Access Review UK Mapping
“Future proofing: Digital health”
There are a number of barriers that need to addressed for the digital health pathway to be future proofed
Trend 2050 Economics and Business
“Rising interest payments present a major challenge to debt management in developing countries”
In total, there are 48 developing countries spending more on servicing the interest payments on their public debt than on education and healthcare - affecting 3.3. billion people
+73% · Public expenditure
2025 Benedict Evans 2025 Autum AI eats the world
““What’s our AI strategy?””
Is this a new tool or a new industry?
luxury2019
“How can luxury fashion embrace digital?”
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How can luxury fashion embrace digital?
Luxury brands are looking for ways to catch up with the likes of Zara and Bershka, and reducing their time to market to 60 days.
2024 Benedict Evans 2024 AI eats the world
And all the externalities
Adding ‘AI’ to the spread of complex and conflicting regulatory questions...
PwC’s MSME Survey 2020 Building to Last
Impact of COVID-19 on MSMEs in Nigeria
Building a Future-Ready Investment Firm
“Dissatisfaction with fees is growing”
Only 41% of investors are happy with the fees they pay and just over a third with their advisor's fee structures.
41% · Investor satisfaction
Megatrend 5 – Technology & Innovation
“AI's future journey is rooted in the computation of human perceptions – Efforts are needed to counteract embedding discriminatory bias into systems”
Applying biased or discriminatory AI to the real world, enforces a vicious cycle - as was the case of Amazon and their use of AI to review job applicants' CVs.
barclays global credit 2024
“Insurance shopping is massive market, ripe for disruption, and tightly aligned to Experian's wheelhouse”
$12bn · Market size
barclays global credit 2024
“Insurance shopping is broken... and we aim to fix it”
Consumers can use multiple aggregators and still shop a portion of the market; High friction and effort.
3 · steps to bind
Bold moves: Leading Southeast Asia's next wave of consu
“Business leaders recognize the opportunities in Southeast Asia, but they are not prepared to seize them”
Gen Zs, AI and Insurgent disruptors are areas with the biggest gaps
Megatrend 2 Health & Care
“Dementia points at a strong increase in the need for cost-intensive, long-term care”
The next decade will 'only' see an increase of around 30 million people, but this will lead to a doubling of the current global cost of USD 1 trillion to USD 2 trillion.
$2 tr · Global dementia cost
Transportation Warehousing Sector
“Vulnerable jobs analysis: Traditional unemployment does not fully capture the economic risk facing American families”
In addition to traditional unemployment, the “vulnerable jobs” metric attempts to capture the income risk facing a larger set of American families by reflecting—
Lloyd’s and Bermuda
“Lloyd’s is tackling issues head on.... And has launched the new prospectus”
$225bn · Insurance protection gap
True-Luxury Global Consumer Insights 9th Edition
“How brands are acting vs what the reality is for customers | 4 brand misconceptions that further fuel emotional & functional unmet needs”
Predominantly fueling functional tablestakes vs. Predominantly fueling emotional differentiators.
500 ·
2019 Global Treasury Benchmarking
“External risks impacting Treasury and hedging programmes today”
PwC's CEO survey defined current threats to businesses—many of which impact Treasury.
35% · Percentage of CEOs identifying threat
The State of Luxury January 2025
“Luxury’s value equation — and the relationship between price and quality — is in question”
Customers are questioning whether luxury products are worth their high price tags
20240220 Barclays US Consumer Bank Investor Update
“More balanced: plan to absorb and reduce IRB impacts”
As a result of these actions RWA density in 2026 expected to be c.145%, more in line with US Basel 3.1 impacts
160% · RWA Density
Constraints to growth: supply chain risks facing renewables
“While the risk outlook appears manageable, one final risk to consider: the lack of interregional transmission lines”
Many regional and interregional transmission links have significant potential economic value and expanding transmissions could save >$300B in power system costs for consumers and allow additional rene
$300B · power system costs
Battery materials demand and supply perspective
“Several unknowns remain that may impact the Ni market”
Mining Investment Fragile Conflict
“Three factors are putting pressure on the social contract between extractive companies and resource-driven countries”