Shield is building Forge, an AI agent platform for IT service teams, powered by OpenAI's Astra model. The headline number: Astra navigates and acts inside business software 35 to 40 percent faster than previous models. That speed difference is not cosmetic. It determines whether a locked-out employee waits minutes or hours.
The more consequential shift is labor allocation, not raw speed. Forge handles routine resolution tasks autonomously, which moves human technicians off tier-one tickets and onto harder problems. That is a structural change to how IT service desks are staffed and measured.
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