---
id: "action-vulnerability-audit"
type: "action-item"
source_timestamps: ["§ What Incumbents Should Do Now"]
tags: ["audit", "risk-management"]
related: ["framework-incumbent-action-plan"]
action: "Run a vulnerability audit against high-friction, high-volume workflows where manual handoffs cause context loss."
outcome: "Identification of critical workflow liabilities that AI-native competitors are likely to target."
sources: ["futures"]
sourceVaultSlug: "hbr-seg-futures"
originDay: 2
articleStem: "hbr-new-24-agentic-ai-supercharges-startups"
sourceUrl: "https://hbr.org/2026/07/how-agentic-ai-supercharges-startups-and-threatens-incumbents"
sourceTitle: "How Agentic AI Supercharges Startups and Threatens Incumbents"
---
# Audit Workflows for AI Vulnerability

**Action.** Run a vulnerability audit against high-friction, high-volume workflows where manual handoffs cause context loss.

**Details.** Identify high-volume intake and routing processes — e.g., insurance claims, loan operations — where manual data transfer between systems causes context loss. These friction points are exactly where AI-native competitors will attack to reset customer expectations.

**Outcome.** Identification of critical workflow liabilities that AI-native competitors are likely to target.

This is **step 1** of the [[framework-incumbent-action-plan]], run against the [[framework-five-forces|five disruptive forces]].