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Wednesday, 7 October 2026
Who is actually adopting AI, measured three ways: what companies disclose in their own SEC filings, what independent measurement firms report, and how far each industry has progressed. What firms like yours are buying now lives on Peer Insights.
| Archetype | Production | Scaled | Band |
|---|---|---|---|
| Regulated Financial Enterprise | 32 per cent | 14 per cent | emerging |
| Health & Life Sciences | 24 per cent | 9 per cent | emerging |
| Legal & Professional Advisory | 28 per cent | 11 per cent | emerging |
| Public Sector & Education | 18 per cent | 6 per cent | nascent |
| Critical Infrastructure & Defence | 14 per cent | 4 per cent | nascent |
| Enterprise Software & Digital Product | 55 per cent | 32 per cent | developing |
| Industrial & Physical Operations | 20 per cent | 7 per cent | nascent |
| Commercial Enterprise | 38 per cent | 18 per cent | emerging |
Menlo Ventures, mid-2026 LLM market update
2026
Ramp AI Index (card and invoice spend across ~40,000 businesses)
April 2026 data
Read these before any modelled slice. The figures above are measured. The peer slice on Peer Insights is not: it pulls live for every selection, but what it pulls is a modelled estimate dated May 2026 whose ordering puts OpenAI ahead of Anthropic, which both measurements above, taken later, contradict. Read that slice for its shape (which vendors appear at all, and how concentrated it is) and read these figures for the ranking.
Category-level market shares (who leads frontier APIs, enterprise assistants, coding agents) are a separate AIE dataset with its own per-row source, confidence and methodology, and live on Market Watch.
Querying SEC EDGAR…