problem_statement
at position 35–40%
37 slides where a page of type problem statement falls in the 35–40% range of its deck.
2025 Bond Cap Artificial Intelligence AI 2025
“AI Model Compute Costs High / Rising + Inference Costs Per Token Falling = Performance Converging + Developer Usage Rising”
Forsyningssektorens Effektiviseringspotentiale
“Øget konkurrenceudsættelse og national ensretning i indsamling vil medvirke til effektivisering af affaldsindsamlingen”
2025 The AI Dossier
“AI-powered risk management and regulatory compliance”
Proactive and comprehensive monitoring reduces the likelihood of missed issues, helping firms avoid massive penalties while reducing the high labor costs associated with traditional compliance process
2025 The AI Dossier
“Ultra-personalized financial advice and wealth management”
Agentic AI systems can serve as an automated financial advisor, providing tailored wealth management by analyzing an individual's full financial picture and adapting plans to changing needs and market
2025 The AI Dossier
“Adaptive, data-driven underwriting through multi-agent collaboration”
Agentic AI systems can transform credit underwriting through specialized agents that analyze applicant data, monitor market context, assess risk, and maintain compliance—creating highly personalized l
2025 The AI Dossier
“Reconciling breaks in real time to free trapped cash and lower buffers”
Agentic AI systems can automatically reconcile breaks and timing mismatches as they occur, so banks can unlock trapped cash faster and operate with a smaller intraday cash buffer.
Rail industry cost and revenue sharing (2011)
“8 – Information: An open book approach would be required in order for a cost and revenue sharing mechanism to be fully effective. However, train operators are very sensitive about sharing financial information with other parties, particularly competitors”
A requirement for TOCs to follow an open book approach could be implemented through the franchise re-letting process if necessary.
Copernicus Market report
“DRIVERS AND CHALLENGES FOR THE ADOPTION OF EO FOR URBAN MONITORING”
The support of EO and remote sensing technologies can facilitate access to the necessary data enabling the analysis of urban drivers and the monitoring of the urban environment.
2020 Benedict Evans 2020 December The Great Unbundling
The ‘cookie apocalypse’
The basis of aggregated interest targeting for 20 years is going away, with no clarity on a replacement
2020 Benedict Evans 2020 December The Great Unbundling
The problem with cookies
No-one would really defend the cookie model today. But...
50% · Publisher revenue
2025 Andrej Karpathy YC School presentation
Gullibility
=> Prompt injection risks, e.g. of private data
UK Electricity Efficiency Potential
“The length of the average commercial lease has decreased significantly, reducing the attractiveness of some measures”
The long payback periods of commercial EE investments makes investments less cost effective within the average period of tenancy
5.3 · Years
Review of efficiency of the operation of the federal courts
The family law backlog in the courts
The FCC finalise over 85% of all family law final orders
109% · Clearance rate
Review of efficiency of the operation of the federal courts
The family law backlog in the courts
Across the courts, over the five years, the percent of finalisations older than 12 months has grown by 14% in the FCC.
+14% · Percent of finalisations older than 12 months
2025 Benedict Evans 2025 Autum AI eats the world
“Yes, but where has all this money got us?”
After three years, lots more science and engineering, but no real clarity on the shape of the market
Banking and capital markets trends 2020: Laying the foundati
Cyber security
It's no longer sufficient to invest purely in static preventative or reactive detective controls.
Socio-economic case for deepening solar PV deployment in Nig
“Study hours: Limited power supply is a major constraint to study time of boarding students, as several public boarding schools lack electricity access”
Majority of public schools with electricity access do not have stable power supply
75% · Percentage of students
Socio-economic case for deepening solar PV deployment in Nig
“Study hours: Poor power supply at public boarding schools' make learning environment inconducive for students and contributes to low academic performances”
Limited study time affected my performance
80% · Academic performance impact
WORLD AFFAIRS
“Global gap between priority of threat and level of preparation”
Level of perceived preparation minus level of concern
-28 pp · percentage point gap
Southeast Asia’s Green Economy 2021 Report: Opportunities on
“However, SEA is not on track, and there is a lot of work to do”
SEA's latest NDCs predict a marginal improvement of 0.5–0.6 GtCO2e from previous, which leaves projected emissions levels at >4-5GtCO2e in 2030.
3.7 · GtCO2e
INVESTING AND THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC
Worry About Current Monthly Expenses
Two in ten Canadian investors were worried about their ability to pay their monthly expenses, with Millennial investors slightly more worried than other age groups about meeting their monthly debt obl
21% · Percentage of investors worried about monthly expenses
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Worry About Current Monthly Expenses
Two in ten Canadian investors were worried about their ability to pay their monthly expenses, with Millennial investors slightly more worried than other age groups about meeting their monthly debt obl
21% · Worry about ability to pay bills
State of Data 2023
“However, DCRs require significant investment in human talent”
Half of DCR users (49%) have six or more employees at their companies who are users, builders, facilitators, or purchasers of DCRs, with nearly one-third (30%) leveraging a minimum of 11 people.
49% · Number of employees
Digital Finance Seeing is Believing
“Key Success Factor 01: Focus on the Most Time-consuming Areas First”
Only by releasing time and resources from the most manually intensive operational processes could Finance teams gain the capacity in delivering better services and providing more business partnering s
47% · Time spent on process
10 retailer investments for an uncertain future
Summary: In-store attributes—importance vs satisfaction
39% of retailers ranked ‘Ability to turn customer data into intelligent and actionable insight’ one of their greatest challenges.
39% · Importance vs Satisfaction gap
10 retailer investments for an uncertain future
“More than a third of retailers are struggling to implement a strategy to provide a single view of the customer, with a further third seeking to improve in this regard”
More than a third of retailers are struggling to implement a strategy to provide a single view of the customer, with a further third seeking to improve in this regard
35% · retailer maturity
Rail supply digitization
“In order to manage digital data and technology, the rail supply industry needs skilled employees – Worldwide shortage of experts”
IT-sector experiences a skill shortage worldwide, although more and more students are enrolled for respective courses
82% · IT-skill shortage
Project Management: Improving performance, reducing risk
“Why people who commission change don't get what they want?”
The Top Three reasons for project failure – regular theme since 2004 !
41% · Percentage of project failure
Unlocking alpha in deals
The key question:
For PE dealmakers, this challenge is even more pronounced: 62% struggle to extract relevant insights from this flood of data, compared to 38% of M&A deal professionals.
62% · PE dealmakers struggling to extract insights from data
Eyepoint Goldman Sachs June 10 2025
“DURAVYU De-Risked Clinical Approach in Wet AMD”
2025 5 trends for 2025
5 Trends for 2025: Ignite innovation with people-powered AI
77% of executives say they need to adopt gen AI quickly to keep up with competitors, but only 25% strongly agree that their organization's IT infrastructure can support scaling AI across the enterpris
77% · Executive sentiment on AI adoption and infrastructure readiness
Artificial Intelligence: Ready to Ride the Wave?
“Despite positive outlook, companies must manage labor, data, ethical, and regulatory dynamics”
Deep dives on each area are in appendix (pages 23-26)
59% · AI adoption challenges
Embracing the Loyalty Equation
What will it take to complete the loyalty equation?
36 of the largest global communication service providers collectively spend $65 billion annually on customer service, amounting to 6.0% of their total revenue.
$65 billion · Annual customer service spend by 36 largest global CSPs
Fast Forward Route to Consumers
“BUT EVEN IN PERSONAL LUXURY, THE RETAIL EQUATION IS UNDER STRESS”
Forecasting a Realistic Electricity Infrastructure Buildout
“... but for many local HD use cases, fleets would need high capacity L3 or DCFC chargers on-site, but just the cost of utility service upgrades can be prohibitive”
To remove this roadblock, regulators would need to approve use of ratepayer funding for service upgrades and other "make ready" investments, removing the burden from individual fleets
USD 4-18M · Cost of utility service upgrade
20250311 jpm conference presentation
“In recent years, Southwest has faced significant cost pressures”
Global Pricing Sales Study 2017
“Most companies focus their digitalization investments on the wrong initiatives”
Initiatives to optimize prices using Big Data and monetize digital products have the highest topline impact, yet are the two areas where companies invest the least.
48% · topline impact