The two executives arrived at similar conclusions: layering AI onto outdated processes risks accelerating inefficiencies rather than creating meaningful change. “You can’t put an AI workflow onto a broken process,” Ball told SJ Denim’s executive editor Angela Velasquez during the panel. For Ball, the clearest early wins of AI deployment have been product visualization and speed to market. “[Our teams] could create 400 different variables of something now before their coffee even is cold,” Ball said. Both visionaries returned to the same closing idea: AI won’t create differentiation on its own.