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20% -- ai success rate for businesses using AI (2026)
Only 20% of businesses trying AI are actually getting results.
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2026
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30
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95
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Deloitte
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https://justinharris.ai/blog/why-ai-deployments-fail-2026/ ↗
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74% of Businesses Are Trying AI. Only 20% Are Actually Getting Results.
74% of Businesses Are Trying AI. Only 20% Are Actually Getting Results.
Here's the thing: the problem is not that AI does not work. The problem is that most businesses are using it wrong, in a very specific and predictable way.
Deloitte has been tracking enterprise AI adoption across hundreds of org…
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businesses using AI: 20% ai success rate. Source: Deloitte (2026). Via Lighthouse Intelligence -- https://lighthousedata.io/data/businesses-ai-results-2026
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