Management

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AI in ITAD and Recycling: Avoiding Claude-Style Cost Overruns with a Hybrid Deployment Model

Microsoft reportedly pulled back from Anthropic’s Claude Code just as Uber blew its 2026 AI budget on it, and both cases show what happens when frontier models are treated like flat‑fee software instead of metered infrastructure for ITAD and recycling operations.

Research: State of the Independent ITAD Operator in the United States

The US independent IT Asset Disposition (ITAD) sector is approaching a structural inflection unlike anything in its thirty-year history. What was for two decades a quietly growing services category dominated by founder-led regional operators has, in the past eighteen months, become a target for sophisticated institutional capital, a strategic priority for global conglomerates, and — most consequentially — a function that enterprise buyers are finally beginning to treat as a governance discipline rather than a disposal cost.