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Capability assessment
5 minutes. Seven axes. A profile of where your team actually stands.
Take the assessment →Are your competitors already
outworking you with AI?
20% of companies
are capturing 74% of AI’s economic value.
Business surveys point to a gap that doubles year on year. Systems keep improving, gains for the leaders compound. The technology is there, competence takes time to catch up. Leaders are 2.6× more likely to use AI to reinvent their business model. Winners reinvest gains into further capability.
Read the PwC AI Performance Study 2026 →Leaders think their AI tools work.
Teams are not so sure.
88% of execs say staff have adequate AI tools
but only 21% of those staff agree.
Leadership buys expensive licences and gives vague presentations — but is out of touch with how far real teams are from getting useful work out of AI. Companies on average spend 93%t of AI budget on technology and just 7% on the people who use it. Adoption is mostly not working well, yet most companies don't know how to do better.
Read the WalkMe Global Study 2026 →AI agents and novel workflows
offer the biggest gains.
88% use AI for basic tasks at work.
The leading 5% transform how they work.
The most successful adopters are restructuring workflows around what AI does well, not fitting it on top of old processes. Select the best context and examples. Run agentic quality and strategy checks continuously. What's technically possible now is reshaping knowledge work — IF your agency builds an operating model for it.
Read the EY Work Reimagined Survey 2025 →AI is going slowly for most companies.
Ceres builds capability within your teams.
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