Benchmarks

Numbers from across the field, gathered and put side by side. What the data supports, what it does not, and which widely repeated figures do not hold up.

ai-roi27 min read

What AI investment actually returns

84 percent say AI is paying off. 25 percent of initiatives delivered what was expected. We traced 62 figures to 38 primary sources, and the gap is the finding.

Noah Davis, Sophie Adams, and Lucas Brown · Aug 10, 2026

ai-agents26 min read

How many companies actually deployed AI agents

Gartner says 17 percent. Salesforce says 83. A vendor says 97. All of them are quoting the same year. We traced every number to its source document and the spread turns out to be the finding.

Noah Davis and Sophie Adams · Aug 5, 2026