AI’s Widening ROI Gap

The distance between AI leaders and laggards is no longer about ambition; it's about readiness. Whether your investment returns value or stalls in endless pilots comes down to what sits beneath it: governed data and modernized processes.

If you've authorized the spend and can't yet defend the return, the problem is rarely the model. It's the foundation it was built on, where systems assembled to produce standardized reports are now being asked to carry intelligence.

AI Leaders

50%

of AI high-performers are redesigning their entire workflows. (McKinsey 2025, Global Survey on AI)

4x

of AI high-performers are redesigning their entire workflows. (McKinsey 2025, Global Survey on AI)

AI Laggards

69%

of AI high-performers are redesigning their entire workflows. (McKinsey 2025, Global Survey on AI)

4x

of AI high-performers are redesigning their entire workflows. (McKinsey 2025, Global Survey on AI)

AI Leaders

12%

of CEOs report both lower costs and higher revenue from AI. (PWC, 2026) 

6%

qualify as AI “high performers” with material EBIT impact. (McKinsey, 2026)

AI Laggards

79%

of enterprises face challenges scaling despite high investment. (Writer, 2026)

81%

report zero meaningful financial gains on their bottom line. (McKinsey, 2026)

The "Valley"

80%

of firms capture only 25% of AI’s economic value.​
(PwC, AI Performance Study, 2026)

We Know What to Change, and What to Leave Running.

For 29 years, we've worked inside the data foundations of enterprises like yours. We know what's actually under the hood, and that it's rarely what the architecture diagram says. We stay accountable across strategy, execution, and enablement, so the change holds long after we leave.

28

Years

2200+

Digital Experts

113+

Industry Awards

500+

Digital Victories

11

Global Locations

How Marlabs Makes a Difference for Our Clients

Foundational
Experience

An Advanced Data and
Analytics Heritage

With two decades of expertise in enterprise data migration, governance, management, and advanced analytics, we help organizations build the trusted data foundations that power successful AI initiatives and intelligent enterprises.

Thinking Beyond IT

Organization-First Business
Transformations

Our clients partner with us because successful transformation requires more than technology. We bring deep expertise in change management, talent strategy, and cultural readiness to help people embrace new ways of working, accelerate adoption, and sustain long-term business impact.

Industry Foresight Built-In

Move Fast…without Breaking
Things

Three decades in life sciences, manufacturing, telecom, and financial services taught us what these environments require before the question was asked. That knowledge is built into our accelerators and frameworks, so security, control, and compliance are decisions already made, not obstacles still to come.

The Expertise You Need for Intelligent Transformation

Your AI is only as trustworthy as the data beneath it.

We build the governed data foundation that turns AI from a gamble into a business function you command. Surface opportunity, remove friction, and support decisions you can defend.

Explore Data & AI

Data platform and lakehouse modernization

Governance, lineage, and quality frameworks

Agentic and interactive AI

Advanced and predictive analytics

AI discovery and readiness assessment

Legacy Constraints Quietly Cap What Your Business Can Do Next

We engineer products that scale in production, not just demos that impress in a conference room. We do this across the full lifecycle, so modernization compounds instead of stalls.

Explore Engineering

Legacy modernization and technical debt reduction

Cloud-native application development

Full-lifecycle product engineering

Experience design and front-end

Quality engineering and automation

Powerful Partnerships to Develop Your
Digital Initiatives

Where Marlabs Is Headed Next

The Latest News from Marlabs

What Experts Are Saying about Marlabs

"Marlabs emerges as a Major Contender in Everest Group's Application Automation Services PEAK Matrix Assessment, owing to its diverse range of solutions addressing a variety of use cases, particularly in the application development, operations, and test automation space. Marlabs also has a robust presence in North America, APAC, and Europe, which helps them to serve the needs of the clients in those high-demand markets.”
Alisha Mittal
Vice President, Everest Group
Marlabs’ prowess in verticals such as Telehealth and Telecom has been helping them win-deals successfully. The firm’s recent partnerships and expansion plans to support its core competencies in Digital Engineering solutions have helped them accelerate their growth trajectory in the Digital Engineering space. This coupled with its strong focus on Data & AI and Experience Engineering, has enabled Marlabs to enhance its vertical-focused capabilities and create a winning combination that has helped it strengthen its position in Zinnov’s 2022 ER&D Zones ratings.”
Sidhant Rastogi
Global Head, Zinnov
Marlabs shows great promise as an upcoming provider of Martech services for large and mid-size clients, with a strong market presence across the U.S. and the company is highly capable of implementing marketing related business solutions. The company demonstrates significant depth across delivering digital solutions specific to building strong end consumer experiences.”
Mauricio Ohtani
ISG Analyst