AI in the Room 2025 : Report Now Available
- Align By Design
- May 21
- 2 min read
What happens when you ask founders, CXOs, product managers and engineers one simple question: “How well is AI really working inside your company?”
This April we did exactly that.
Over 100 professionals - spanning tech, finance, manufacturing, retail, consulting and the public sector - answered a survey we called AI in the Room. Today we’re releasing the findings in a concise, data-rich report: “AI in the Room 2025: Bridging the Alignment Gap.”
You can download it free at the link below.
Why we ran the survey
At Align By Design we spend every day helping leaders close the Think-Say-Do gap. Recently we noticed the same mis-alignment surfacing around AI:
Leaders talk about “game-changing AI strategy,” yet pilots stall after one team demo.
Employees teach themselves ChatGPT at night because budgets for training never materialise.
Ethics decks circulate…but governance remains a grey area.
We wanted hard numbers behind those anecdotes - and we wanted to share the story so other companies could benchmark their own progress.
How we did it
100+ respondents from six continents, half of them senior leaders.
Anonymous questionnaire built to uncover both declared practice and hidden sentiment.
Cross-tabs that compare leadership rhetoric with on-the-ground behaviour.
A taste of what you’ll learn
Question | Glimpse of the answer |
How mature is AI adoption - really? | Only 16 percent of firms say AI is “deeply integrated.” Forty-two percent admit they’re still dabbling. |
Are leaders leading by example? | Eighty-three percent talk about AI at town-halls. Fewer than one in five use AI tools daily in their own work. |
Where does AI create value today? | Summarising documents and drafting content top the list. Coding sits near the bottom, for now. |
What worries people most? | Data privacy, ambiguous policies and the sense that “AI theatre” might trump real outcomes. |
That is just the surface. The full report digs into training gaps, tool budgets, hidden employee anxieties, and what top performers do differently.
Ready to dive deeper?
Download the full report and benchmark your organisation.
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Bring the conversation to your team. Harish runs fast-paced AI-Alignment workshops that turn lofty AI ambitions into funded, owned, and measured action plans. Drop him a note: harish@alignbydesign.in.
The future belongs to the aligned. We hope the report helps you get there - faster.
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