Intelligence from the people doing the work.
We run in-depth interviews with the senior executives making enterprise technology and AI decisions inside the Fortune 500, and with the platform companies that serve them. Surveys and analyst reports capture what organizations say. Our work captures the reasoning behind the decision: the budgets, the constraints, the internal politics, the tradeoffs that rarely reach public data. It is built for the person making the call, not the person writing the briefing deck.
Who relies on it
Technology companies, investors, consulting firms, and corporate strategy teams use these conversations to validate strategy, guide product development, assess markets, and read where enterprise adoption is actually heading.
Before committing to a product, a market, an acquisition, or an investment thesis, they get direct insight into how decision-makers are thinking, what they are prioritizing, and why they are making the choices that will shape their organizations.
Methodology
Every engagement begins with a structured interview protocol designed around the question being asked. We recruit senior operators, typically VPs, SVPs, and C-suite, at the companies that actually face the decision. Interviews are conducted by trained researchers, not by salespeople.
Sessions are scheduled for an hour and are recorded with consent. Quantitative validation comes through structured polling of the broader executive community we have built. Synthesis turns raw transcripts into the findings that inform reports, custom engagements, and standing intelligence.
Findings are reported in aggregate and de-identified. We do not attribute statements to named individuals or sell identifiable board content without separate written consent.
Corpus
Our partnership with more than sixty universities means our advisory boards carry the names of the institutions we serve, and the people in the room lead at the companies shaping what comes next.
Our published research draws on direct survey responses from executives across this community. The finding that holds across the library: the strategy gap is wider than the skills gap.
Custom engagements
Most of the institute's research is commissioned by technology companies, investors, consulting firms, and corporate strategy teams with a specific question that the public reports do not answer. Custom engagements come in three tiers, distinguished by scope, sample size, and depth of synthesis.
The smallest tier is appropriate for sector-specific or function-specific intelligence on a defined question.
The middle tier supports broader portfolio decisions and layers structured quantitative polling on top of qualitative interviews.
The largest tier is built for organizations evaluating a major directional decision over several quarters, with multiple cohorts of interviews and embedded analyst time.
All three begin with a discovery conversation that defines the question and scopes the work. Pricing is shared during that conversation.
How an engagement works
Five steps, from the question you need answered to the readout that informs your decision.
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Discovery conversation
We define the exact question and the decision it informs. One hour. No proposal yet, no commitment.
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Scope and design
We build the interview protocol around your question, decide who to recruit and how many, and set the timeline. You approve the design before we begin.
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Recruit and interview
Trained researchers run hour-long sessions with the senior operators who actually face the decision. Recorded with consent, never with a sales agenda.
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Synthesize
Transcripts become ranked findings, each with its prevalence and the verbatim reasoning behind it. Aggregated and de-identified.
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Deliver
A written report and a live readout, framed around your decision. Findings, what they mean, and what we would do with them.
See what a custom engagement produces.
An illustrative sample report, built around a hypothetical question: an enterprise AI platform company deciding whether to invest in an agent governance capability. The scenario and data are invented to show the shape of the deliverable, not a real engagement.
Read the sample reportSubscription intelligence
Subscription intelligence is a standing relationship with the institute for organizations that need continuous signal rather than one-time research. Subscribers receive monthly briefings drawn from the most recent additions to the corpus, access to the corpus for their own analyst teams, quarterly executive sessions with the institute's principal researchers, and curated introductions, with the consent of the operators involved.
The subscription is built for AI platform companies, large enterprises with active AI portfolios, and investment firms with AI-heavy theses. Annual commitment. Single seat or organization-wide.
Published research
The institute publishes the work it considers most useful to the broader field, free to read, no registration required. Current reports cover AI readiness in the Fortune 500, the AI skills gap in the workforce, and the agent readiness gap in the enterprise. New reports are released as the corpus supports them, typically one or two per year.
The published library is the strongest single signal of what the institute actually does.
Start with a discovery conversation.
Tell us what you are trying to decide and what you have already considered. We will tell you whether commissioned research is the right answer, which tier fits, and what the next thirty days would look like. Start with a 20-minute fit call. Pricing is shared in that conversation if there is a fit.