Enterprise AI
Benchmarks From
Practitioners.
Peer-sourced data on how Fortune 1000 companies deploy, spend on, and evaluate AI. From the people who actually make the decisions — not analysts, not vendors.
350+ enterprise AI leaders. Three proprietary indices. One quarterly study. The benchmark data your board deck is missing.
350+
Enterprise AI Leaders
12
Industries Represented
VP / Head of AI
Avg. Respondent Title
8,400+
Data Points Per Quarter
Everyone has an opinion on AI. Nobody has the data.
Gartner studies vendors. McKinsey sells frameworks. G2 solicits reviews from vendors themselves. Nobody asks the enterprise buyers what they actually spend, deploy, and think. Until now.
No Peer Benchmarks
You're making million-dollar AI decisions with no visibility into what your peers are spending, deploying, or getting in return.
Vendor-Sourced Data
Every benchmark you can find was funded by a vendor, written by an analyst who's never deployed, or based on self-reported case studies.
Board Deck Gap
Your CFO wants comparable data before approving next quarter's AI budget. You don't have it. Neither does anyone else.
What you get. Free first year.
Personalized Benchmark Report
See how your AI spend, adoption maturity, and vendor stack compare against anonymized peers in your industry and company size.
Three Proprietary Indices
Heat Index (what's accelerating), Vulnerability Index (which vendors are at risk), and Spend Index (where budgets actually go).
Peer Community Access
Connect with other Heads of AI, CTOs, and VP Engineering at companies deploying AI at scale. No vendors. No sales pitches.
Quarterly Research Dinners
Invite-only dinners in major markets. Structured discussions on enterprise AI challenges, moderated by Arcana researchers.
Real-Time Data Updates
Get notified as new benchmark data comes in — vendor sentiment shifts, spend category changes, and emerging deployment patterns.
30 minutes. Quarterly. That's the ask.
Join
Apply to the Arcana Research community. Open to enterprise technology leaders deploying AI — Heads of AI, CTOs, VP Engineering, and equivalent roles.
Participate
Complete the Arcana AI Enterprise Pulse — a quarterly study (~30 minutes) covering your AI spend, vendor evaluations, deployment status, and strategic priorities.
Benchmark
Receive your personalized benchmark report, full index access, peer community membership, and invitations to quarterly research dinners. First year free.
Three lenses on enterprise AI. All practitioner-sourced.
Our proprietary indices are built from quarterly study data collected from 350+ enterprise AI leaders. No vendor funding. No analyst opinion. Just deployment data.
Heat Index
What's accelerating
A 0–100 score for every major AI technology based on real enterprise deployment velocity, practitioner sentiment, and investment momentum. Not hype cycles — deployment data.
Illustrative data. Full index available to members.
Vulnerability Index
Who's at risk
Which AI vendors are at risk of losing enterprise customers — and to whom. Based on satisfaction scores, switching intent, and competitive displacement patterns from our practitioner panel.
Illustrative data. Full index available to members.
Spend Index
Where budgets go
Where enterprise AI budgets actually flow — by category, company size, and industry. Tracks quarter-over-quarter allocation shifts across infrastructure, platform, and application layers.
Illustrative data. Full index available to members.
Preview your benchmark.
Answer three questions and see a preview of how your organization compares to peers. The full report is available after joining the study.
Personalized to your role, company size, and industry
Anonymized peer data from 350+ enterprise leaders
Updated quarterly with each Pulse study cycle
Your Role
Company Size (employees)
Industry
Practitioners only. No vendors. No analysts.
Our research community is exclusively enterprise technology leaders who deploy AI at scale. The people making the decisions, managing the budgets, and evaluating the vendors.
Company Size
1,000+ employees
Mid-market to Fortune 500
AI Maturity
Active deployment
Past experimentation, in production or pilot
Decision Authority
Budget influence
Involved in AI vendor and spend decisions
Enterprise AI intelligence, every morning
A daily briefing on what's shipping in enterprise AI. Buyer research insights, vendor moves, deployment patterns. Written for practitioners, sourced from our research community. Free.
The data your board deck is missing.
Join the Arcana AI Enterprise Pulse
Contribute 30 minutes per quarter. Get personalized benchmark data, three proprietary indices, peer community access, and invitations to quarterly research dinners. First year free for founding members.
For AI vendors interested in Pulse data access, contact ken@arcanaresearch.com