
Published 05 October 2026
Next year will reward brands embracing next-gen sentient spaces – IRL environments integrated with generative, agentic and ‘edge AI’ (the latter enabling localised immediate data processing, reducing costs) that can perceive and bend to visitors’ ‘signals’ in real-time. Presenting the next level of omni-channel excellence, it will be a particularly key phenomenon for the self-service sweet-spot (67% globally prefer self-service tech over speaking to an advisor, Tidio, 2026), with both creative and pragmatic imperatives.



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