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AI is replacing work companies paid service firms to do

Businesses may be using AI agents for customer support, software maintenance, testing, back-office processing and training they used to buy from outsourcing, consulting and education firms.

ACN CNXC COUR EPAM IBM NOW PLTR

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Why it matters

Service firms sell hours and headcount, so AI doing the work shrinks their revenue per client, while the software vendors whose agents do it can sell that work as software.

Companies it touches

CNXC Concentrix Corporation Potential opportunity Pressured −2.87% COUR Coursera Inc. Re-underwrite / risk Pressured +0.63% IBM International Business Machines Corporation Two-sided −0.54% NOW ServiceNow Inc. Potential opportunity Benefits −1.42% PLTR Palantir Technologies Inc. Benefits −0.11%

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Would strengthen the claim

Clients cutting outsourcing contracts or headcount-based fees in favour of AI tools, service firms reporting smaller deals or pricing pressure they attribute to AI, and agent products sold as a replacement for outsourced work.

Would weaken the claim

Service firms growing revenue from AI implementation work, clients keeping outsourcing contracts as they adopt AI, and agent deployments that add work rather than replace it.

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