Most leadership teams don’t fail because they “didn’t work hard enough.” They fail because they miss the moment when confidence begins to erode, and by the time it shows up in revenue, retention, or board pressure, it’s already expensive.

The RepVue Q3 2025 Cloud Index is out—and the signals behind the numbers reveal a commercial landscape undergoing its most significant transformation in a decade.

Interest rates are falling. Employment and GDP are beating expectations. Trade deals are accelerating. In January 2026, the “Big Beautiful Bill” activates, unlocking incentives across infrastructure, digital modernization, broadband, data centers, and domestic innovation. For tech and telecom companies , this isn’t just good macro-noise. It’s a rare, time-sensitive opportunity to win market share, shape enterprise spend, and lock in high-value contracts before the flood of

2026 will be remembered as the year the market rewarded the disciplined, signal-driven, and buyer-intelligent — and left behind the reactive, story-driven, and nostalgia-led. This isn’t a market correction. It’s a capability correction.