H1 2026 AI Recap for Iranian Managers

Looking back at H1 2026, winners were not the loudest demos but teams that automated one painful workflow and measured it.

A useful recap has three parts: what actually reached production, what stayed stuck in pilot, and what should not be funded again.

Separate noisy trends from funding decisions. Iranian managers need a short priority list more than another wave to chase.

One page for the board is enough; a forty-page report usually delays the decision.

Manager action: Write a one-page H1 postmortem: what shipped, what stalled, what to fund in Q3.