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Getting to ROI: How Brands Turn Cost Centers into Revenue Engines with AI

Salesforce · Salesforce News · Oct 01, 2026 · Industry Trends

Enterprise brands using Agentforce report AI turning customer service cost centers into revenue engines

“We wanted to make sure that AI wasn't removing the human; it was actually elevating the human. And now we have an Experience Center that used to be a call center that is bringing in millions in revenue.”— Salesforce

Major Salesforce enterprise customers including AT&T, Canada Goose, and Canon are reporting concrete ROI from agentic AI deployments, with Canada Goose autonomously resolving 89% of routine messaging inquiries and converting its call center into a revenue-generating Experience Center. A consistent pattern across deployments shows AI augmenting rather than replacing human workers, freeing staff for higher-value personalized interactions. This signals enterprise agentic AI is maturing past the pilot phase into measurable business transformation at scale.

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