Persuading enterprise IT to enable Cowork

What's inside

• The tooling landscape. Chatbots, agent-building platforms, agentic coding, and general purpose agentic AI — mapped against real jobs, showing which class of tool can reach each one. The messy, under-specified knowledge work is the gap, and it is where agentic transformation actually starts.
• The vendor landscape. Four viable paths — Microsoft, Anthropic, OpenAI, and Google — compared on where the data goes, who controls it, and what adoption costs. Including the EU data-residency position of each, as of August 2026.
• The case for urgency. The argument to bring to the CEO, CFO, CIO and CISO — credibility with your customers, pressure from your competitors, and the new business that opens up.
• The standard objections. Data residency, "new vendor", and "we have no policy for this" — what each block actually means, and the specific, documented answers to each one.

Everything is sourced: vendor documentation, admin-console mechanics, certifications, and named European enterprise precedents, with footnotes throughout.