Adding an AI tool to an old workflow is not the same as redesigning
the workflow around AI. That is the whole business argument, and it is what the 2026
studies keep finding.
What the studies found
74%
of measured AI economic value was captured by 20% of organisations.
PwC AI Performance Study 2026
74%of measured value
74% — of measured AI economic value was captured by 20% of organisations. Shown as a field of dots: concentrated, not spread. Source: PwC AI Performance Study 2026.
concentrated, not spread
66%
of organisations report productivity or efficiency gains from enterprise AI.
Deloitte State of AI in the Enterprise 2026
66%of organisations report gains
66% — of organisations report productivity or efficiency gains from enterprise AI. Shown as a field of dots: two thirds report gains. Source: Deloitte State of AI in the Enterprise 2026.
two thirds report gains
34%
are deeply transforming how the business works.
Most companies still have much further to go.
Deloitte, 2026
34%redesigned the workflow
34% — are deeply transforming how the business works. Shown as a field of dots: the rest bolted AI on. Source: Deloitte, 2026.
the rest bolted AI on
1 in 5
has mature governance for autonomous AI agents.
Deloitte, 2026
5 in 5with a guardrail
1 in 5 — has mature governance for autonomous AI agents. Shown as a field of dots: autonomy needs boundaries. Source: Deloitte, 2026.
autonomy needs boundaries
The business case
Measure the process before and after.
We will not tell you it will be 80% cheaper, ten times faster or
error-free. We do not know that, and neither does anyone who says it before the work.
Here is the equation instead.
The eight things we baseline on your process before automating it,
and measure again afterwards.
What we measure
What it is
Human minutes / case
Time a person spends on one case, start to finish.
Cycle time
How long the case takes from arriving to being done, waiting included.
Cost / case
What one case costs to process — the model and platform costs counted in.
Error rate
Cases that came out wrong and had to be done again.
Waiting time
Time a case spends sitting in a queue instead of moving.
Cases / day
How much the process can get through. Capacity, not speed.
Exceptions
Cases the workflow handed to a person. This should never be zero.
Conversion and SLA
Whatever the process exists to achieve, measured the way the business already measures it.
No generic ROI claims.
We measure your workflow.
Baseline → Automate → Measure. You will not find numbers
against these eight on this page, because the only honest ones come from your process.
The first thing we do is measure it as it runs today — that is the baseline the
whole thing is judged against.
Capacity
More capacity. Not just lower cost.
Automation can take the repetitive work off people so they can
handle more customers, more campaigns, more products and more decisions. The evidence
does not support treating AI purely as a headcount story: PwC's 2026 Global AI Jobs
Barometer found stronger headcount and wage growth in its most AI-ready group than in
its least AI-exposed one, alongside a 62% wage premium for roles requiring AI skills.
100 → 20
Manual actions fall. Human decisions stay. Throughput grows.
PwC Global AI Jobs Barometer
20manual actions left
100 → 20 — Manual actions fall. Human decisions stay. Throughput grows. Shown as a field of dots: and more work getting done. Source: PwC Global AI Jobs Barometer.
and more work getting done
Show the work — every figure, with its source
PwC AI Performance Study 2026 — a study of 1,217 senior executives. It reports that AI leaders were roughly twice as likely to redesign workflows around AI, and that 74% of the measured economic value from AI was captured by 20% of the organisations studied.
Deloitte State of AI in the Enterprise 2026 — 66% of organisations report productivity or efficiency gains; 34% fall in its deeper transformation category; around one in five reports mature governance for autonomous agents.
PwC Global AI Jobs Barometer — stronger headcount and wage growth in its most AI-ready company group than in its least AI-exposed group, and a 62% wage premium for roles requiring AI skills.
66% is the share of organisations reporting gains. It is not a claim that productivity rose by 66%. The brief this site was built from flags that reading specifically, and so does this page.
These figures were not independently verified for this site. They are reproduced with the attributions above, as supplied. Anyone relying on them should read the studies.
Next
Start with one process.
Show us how it works today. We will find what should stay human and what can be automated.