# What happens when AI actually works in business

> At Disrupt 2026, Anthropic, Gamma, and Clay discuss the gap between impressive demos and products enterprises actually deploy.
- Title: What happens when AI actually works in business · TechCrunch
- Summary: At Disrupt 2026, Anthropic, Gamma, and Clay discuss the gap between impressive demos and products enterprises actually deploy. Three AI leaders will discuss…
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- Source: TechCrunch — https://techcrunch.com/2026/09/28/anthropic-gamma-and-clay-share-what-happens-when-enterprises-actually-deploy-ai-at-techcrunch-disrupt-2026
- Author: TechCrunch Events
- Published: 2026-09-28T15:30:00+00:00
- Read time: 2 min
- Topics: anthropic, claude, gamma, clay, techcrunch disrupt 2026, enterprise ai deployment, ai products, san francisco, technology, startups
## The demo versus reality gap
An AI demo can look brilliant in five minutes. Then customers start using the product, push it into unexpected workflows, and quickly discover whether it solves a real problem or becomes another abandoned experiment.

> An AI demo can look brilliant in five minutes. Then customers start using the product.
## Anthropic's deployment patterns
At TechCrunch Disrupt 2026, Anthropic Head of Applied AI Cat de Jong will explore where enterprise deployments succeed, where they stall, and what separates organizations extracting real value from those still running pilots eighteen months later.
## De Jong's vantage point
De Jong works directly with enterprises putting Claude into critical workflows. Her experience offers a firsthand look at what changes when AI moves from experimentation into critical workflows and why some organizations reach production while others do not.
## Gamma's user adoption story
Gamma co-founder and CEO Grant Lee brings the founder perspective. Gamma has grown from an alternative to presentation software into a broader visual communication tool, approaching one hundred million users as it expanded AI tools into marketing assets and other visual content.
## What makes products stick
Lee's experience with Gamma shows what makes an AI product useful enough for customers to keep coming back. He understands what changes once people use it in unanticipated ways and how to turn powerful AI capabilities into products that solve problems people actually have.
## Clay's workflow integration
Clay co-founder and CEO Kareem Amin builds AI into how companies find and reach customers. Clay provides infrastructure to pull in data, run agentic workflows, and launch go-to-market plays, giving Amin insight into where AI is genuinely useful and how it fits into existing workflows.
## Clay and Claude integration
In January, TechCrunch reported that Clay was one of the launch apps integrated into Claude when Anthropic introduced interactive workplace tools inside the Claude interface, putting Amin close to questions about where AI is useful and what happens once customers depend on it.
## Disrupt 2026 details
The session happens at TechCrunch Disrupt October thirteen to fifteen at San Francisco's Moscone West, where ten thousand plus founders, investors, operators, and tech leaders gather for two hundred plus sessions across six industry stages with two hundred fifty plus speakers and three hundred plus exhibiting startups.
## Key takeaway

Three AI leaders will discuss at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 what separates successful enterprise AI deployments from abandoned pilots.