Post by Notion

There’s a lot of noise around AI right now. The loudest stories tend to come from the edges: companies replacing entire business functions, running autonomous fleets of agents, or claiming they have already transformed the nature of work. Read enough of these stories and it can start to feel like everyone is already ahead. We wanted to challenge that assumption and understand what AI adoption actually looks like in the real world. To do that, we mapped more than six thousand respondents’ answers to a four-level AI maturity model, from a thought partner that individuals reach for, to AI as the system, where autonomous agents run critical processes end-to-end. Full report: ntn.so/2026-research