You cannot be more transformed than you can oversee.
AIMI is a research programme on enterprise AI maturity in Germany, Austria and Switzerland. It scores at the level of the function, lets governance cap the level, and publishes every number it relies on — verified at the source.
~10 minutes · 25 items · free · methodology public · every question sourced
The state of play, in verified numbers
80% → 37%
say AI has improved their own productivity — yet only 37% of organisations report any EBIT contribution, flat year on year.
McKinsey Global Survey, Aug 2026 (n=1,719)
61.3%
of 1,900 organisations across 20 markets are still in the two least mature stages. The mean barely moved in a year.
IDC MaturityScape, 2026
83% vs 2.7%
of the S&P 500 disclose AI as a risk — while only 2.7% of directors bring AI expertise.
The Conference Board
89% vs 33%
of German executives call AI highly relevant — yet only a third consider their company adequately equipped.
KPMG Germany, 2026
What AIMI is
Research
A continuously maintained evidence base — 38 verified sources, each checked at its origin, dated and linked. Unverifiable figures are never published.
The evidence base →The Index
A five-level maturity scale scored per function across six dimensions, with governance capping the achievable level. Peer benchmarks are published only once a segment reaches a defensible sample.
How scoring works →The assessment
Twenty-five research-referenced items, one function, about ten minutes. You receive a level, a sourced roadmap, EU AI Act exposure flags, consistency checks and a board-ready summary — by e-mail, free.
The thesis
AI maturity is not capability you have. It is capability you can govern and scale. Adoption is now universal; the constraint is the operating model — integration, process, measurement and oversight. That is why AIMI scores the function, not the enterprise, and why the weakest dimension sets the ceiling rather than the average.
Latest research
All 38 sources →80% of respondents say AI has improved their individual productivity — yet only 37% of organisations report any positive EBIT contribution (flat year-on-year), and AI high performers remain 6%.
Individual gains have not translated into enterprise value. High performers redesign workflows (three-quarters vs one-quarter of others) and are twice as likely to have defined processes to measure impact. "The limiting factor is increasingly the organization's ability to absorb change."
McKinsey, "The State of AI in 2026: On the road to ROI" (Global Survey) · 25 Aug 2026
Only 22% of organisations have scaled AI across multiple business units or adopted an AI-first approach; 11% are entirely unaware of what their function spent on AI in 2025 — while 85% plan to increase spending.
High performers — those who constantly track ROI and treat AI as a portfolio — report positive returns on 81% of initiatives; low performers do not know the return on 29% of theirs. Measurement, not spend, separates them.
Gartner, press release "Only 22% of Organizations Have Successfully Scaled AI Across Multiple Business Units" · 1 Sep 2026
For the first time a majority of German companies use AI: 57% (36% a year earlier, 20% two years earlier). But among users, 0% say they exploit its potential fully and 59% say "not at all".
Adoption has crossed the majority line in Germany; maturity has not started. 37% expect to fall under the EU AI Act as deployers and 89% expect high implementation effort.
Bitkom, "Erstmals nutzt die Mehrheit der Unternehmen KI" (Bitkom Research) · 14 Sep 2026
An independent research programme founded by Andrzej Chądzyński.
~10 minutes · 25 items · free · methodology public · every question sourced
The AIMI Research ecosystem
Research instruments
AIMI Assessment
Function-level AI maturity, governance-capped, every item sourced. 25 items, about 10 minutes.
Boardroom AI Monitor coming soon
How DAX and WIG20 boards talk about AI in annual reports.
monitor.aimiresearch.comPublic education
THE TURNING / PRZEŁOM
An interactive map of the AI transition for young adults, teachers and leaders.
A separate public-education wing of AIMI Research — not a research instrument.