Evidence status: This is a PromptLeash review of external research, not original PromptLeash research or a customer benchmark.
What the evidence indicates
- AI adoption and investment continue to expand rapidly across economies and organisations.
- Aggregate adoption measures do not show whether a specific organisation has improved capability, workflows, governance, or outcomes.
- As access becomes common, leaders need stronger internal evidence to distinguish deployment from transformation.
Implications for transformation leaders
- Establish a baseline before launching additional adoption initiatives.
- Measure repeated use and workflow change, not only licences or one-time activity.
- Connect evidence to the decisions leaders need to make next.
Limitations
- The AI Index combines many datasets with different populations, definitions, and collection methods.
- Global and market-level findings cannot be treated as a benchmark for an individual organisation.
- PromptLeash has not independently reproduced the source analysis.
Original sources
- The 2026 AI Index Report - Stanford Institute for Human-Centered AI