Data study ·
Only 16% of companies gain real benefit from AI
Original title, in French: “Seules 16 % des entreprises tirent un réel bénéfice de l’IA”
- Publication
- Brief IA (France)
- Author
- Tom Levy
- Published on
- 28 October 2026 · read in the page structured data
Summary
A survey cited in the article shows that all the organisations surveyed already use AI to some extent, but only 16% derive truly transformative value from it. 40% put the benefits at a moderate level for particular tasks or teams, 21% report significant gains and 23% see little or no return. Deployments remain mostly exploratory: 38% are testing use cases, 35% use AI in an assistive role through copilots, only 12% have agents in production and 3% see AI doing most of the work in key processes. Prukalpa Sankar, co-founder of Atlan, attributes this gap to the lack of a context layer connecting business systems and AI models.
Summary based on the full text of the article.
Read the article on Brief IA →Figures cited
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16 %
share of companies reporting transformative value from AI
organisations surveyed, not specified
« seules 16% estiment en tirer une valeur de transformation. »
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40 %
share of companies putting the benefits of AI at a moderate level for particular tasks or teams
organisations surveyed
« La part la plus large, 40%, situe les bénéfices dans des tâches ou des équipes particulières, à un niveau qualifié de modéré. »
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21 %
share of respondents reporting significant gains from AI
organisations surveyed
« 21% des répondants évoquent des gains significatifs »
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23 %
share of respondents seeing little or no return from AI
organisations surveyed
« 23% n’observent que peu ou pas de retours. »
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38 %
share of companies testing AI use cases
organisations surveyed
« 38% des entreprises indiquent tester des cas d’usage. »
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35 %
share of companies using AI to assist their employees
organisations surveyed
« 35% utilisent l’IA pour assister leurs collaborateurs via des co‑pilotes ou des interfaces de chat. »
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12 %
share of companies reporting AI agents in production
organisations surveyed
« Seules 12% déclarent des agents d’IA en production »
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3 %
share of companies where AI does most of the work in key processes
organisations surveyed
« 3% affirment que l’IA accomplit la majorité du travail dans des processus clés. »
Classification
- Country
- Worldwide scope
- Company size
- All sizes
- Industries
- All industries, or industry not specified
- Companies
- Atlan (cited)
- Keywords
- ai adoption, return on investment, ai agents, business survey, business context, copilots
Entry written by Marsanne Studio from the cited article, with the help of an AI model (claude-sonnet-5). The rights to the article and its illustrations belong to Brief IA and its author. Entry translated from French by Claude Sonnet 5.5.