Enterprise AI intelligence

sourced from the decision makers deploying it

A quarterly study of Fortune 1000 IT, AI, and sourcing leaders covering enterprise AI: spend, vendor performance, technology roadmap, business unit adoption, and yield.

Understand how you compare overall — and against a similar cohort by industry, revenue, and annual IT spend.

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Purpose Built For

Peer visibility on AI spend

See exactly how comparable Fortune 1000 enterprises are allocating AI budget — by category, vendor, and business unit — updated every quarter.

AI governance & risk benchmarks

How are your peers governing AI? What frameworks are they using? We track governance posture, risk management practices, and compliance readiness alongside spend and adoption.

The data your stakeholders need

A one-page AI Vital Stats™ briefing, benchmarked against peers and updated quarterly. The data your stakeholders are asking for — Board, ELT, and Line of Business leadership.

Fortune 1000

Peer Community

12 Industries

Across

VP+ / C-Suite

Respondent Level

Updated Quarterly

Refresh

Our team has over 30 years of peer-based enterprise research & community building, at institutions like Gartner, TheInfoPro, S&P, and HSBC.

The Arcana Model—

Built for the Enterprise Buyer.

Arcana is the Voice of the AI Customer. The AI Enterprise Pulse™ is the only fact-based, definitive source of enterprise AI — spend, vendor performance, roadmap, adoption, yield. Built for buyers. Not analyst firms. Not management consultants.

Methodology

Source

Pre-screened. No paid panels.

Every respondent is a verified Fortune 1000 leader with budget authority — vetted on a personal call before they touch a single question. All responses anonymized. Reported in aggregate only.

Style

Zero vendor sponsorship.

The survey is designed from the enterprise buyer's perspective. No vendor pays to shape questions, sponsor the report, or get pre-publication access. Period.

Frequency

Time series, not snapshots.

Same topics, same cohort, every quarter. The only longitudinal record of enterprise AI behavior — built for buyers who need to see how Q1 compares to Q4, not just where the market sits today.

What you get

IP & Insight

Four indices the analysts don't have.

Spend Index™ (where peers allocate). Heat Index™ (what they're rolling out next). Vulnerability Index™ (which vendors are quietly being replaced). Yield Index™ (what's actually returning value). Composite scores you can cite in board decks — not gut-feel quadrants.

Delivery

Free briefing. Paid time series.

Free for respondents

Complete the AI Enterprise Pulse™, get your personalized AI Vital Stats™ briefing — no cost.

Members

Full historical time series, all four indices over time, peer benchmarks across cohorts, and a private community of F1000 AI leadership.

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The Deliverables—

Intelligence that you put to work.

Every member receives a personal AI Vital Stats™ briefing, a peer comparison report, the quarterly Pulse findings, and access to four proprietary indices.

The one-page briefing your board is already asking for — updated every quarter, benchmarked against your peers.

AI Vital Stats —

Tear Sheet

Meridian Holdings·Q2 2026

At a Glance

Annual AI Investment

$62M

AI as a % of Annual IT Spend

14%

Year-over-Year Trend

↑ 38%

Foundation Model Provider

Anthropic

FM Access Channel

Direct API + AWS Bedrock

#1 Strategic Priority

Scaling pilots to production

Highest Momentum

AI Governance & Risk

+95% YoY

Spend Breakdown

Foundation Models 26%Data Foundation 19%AI Compute 22%AI Software Eng. 12%Consulting & SIs 13%AI Governance 8%

Core Vendor Stack

CategorySpendYoYRatingsPctile

Foundation ModelsIn production

Anthropic (Claude) · also: OpenAI, Google Gemini

$10M–$25M↑ 52%

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78th percentile

Data FoundationIn production

Databricks · also: Snowflake (migrating)

$7M–$15M↑ 28%

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65th percentile

AI ComputeIn production

AWS · also: NVIDIA DGX, CoreWeave (eval)

$15M–$50M↑ 35%

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72nd percentile

AI Software Eng.In production

GitHub Copilot · also: Cursor, Claude Code (eval)

$5M–$10M↑ 55%

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82nd percentile

Consulting & SIsIn production

Deloitte · also: Accenture

$5M–$10M↓ 15%

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45th percentile

AI GovernanceIn pilot

OneTrust · also: IBM OpenPages (eval)

$1M–$5M↑ 95%

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68th percentile

Governance & Risk Posture

Risk Framework

NIST AI RMF (Partial)

Regulatory Readiness

Partially Prepared

AI Yield Index

High Dependency

Sample data · Based on Meridian Holdings profile

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How It Works—

30 minutes. Quarterly. That's the ask.

Step 01

Apply

Submit your application with your name, title, company, and work email. No questionnaires. No sales calls.

Step 02

Meet the team

We schedule a 30-minute introductory call. We walk through the research, answer your questions, and learn about your AI deployment.

Step 03

Participate in the Pulse

Complete the AI Enterprise Pulse — a quarterly study (~30 minutes) covering your spend, vendors, and strategic priorities.

Step 04

Receive your intelligence

Your AI Vital Stats™ briefing and the Quarterly AI Pulse Report™ — benchmarked against your peers. Additional indices and community access available to members.

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Get Started—

The data your board deck is missing.

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Contribute 30 minutes per quarter. Receive your AI Vital Stats™ briefing and the Quarterly AI Pulse Report™. Walk into your next board meeting with the data.

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For AI vendors interested in Pulse data access, contact ken@arcana-research.com

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