Executive and Practitioner Views Diverge

July 22, 2026

Leaders and the people doing the work do not always agree on how far AI adoption has come.

Early responses hint at a gap between how executives and individual contributors describe their organization's AI maturity. Understanding this gap is one of the questions the annual report aims to answer over time.

This is a preliminary finding drawn from an in-progress study. It will be validated against the full dataset before the 2026 report is published.

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