Adoption momentum

AI Adoption Momentum

What's trending across the catalog right now — the use case types, industries, business domains, and technologies with the fastest recent, accelerating deployment activity, plus how each trend has evolved and which categories show corroborated early signals.

Data as of
Aug 25, 2026
Dataset revision
dsr-d2824fe839d09681
Canonical record count
3,811
Top mover

Cloud migration

Surging

5

use case types
Early signals (12mo)

1

Tracked cases

3,155

Six-month change brief

What changed

Over the last 6 months, the momentum leader among use case types is Cloud migration (index 95). 5 use case types are surging, and 1 use case type met the corroborated early-signal threshold.

Largest increase

Cloud migration

43 recent cases · +43 vs prior 6 months

44 organizations · 5 active months

Largest slowdown

No sufficiently evidenced use case type has fewer recent cases than in the prior 6 months.

Corroborated breakout

Planning automation

Earliest evidence Mar 2026 · 10 recent cases

11 organizations · 4 active months

Maturity vs momentum

Which AI patterns are established and still accelerating?

Maturity reflects evidence depth and longevity. Momentum reflects recent activity and acceleration.

214 comparable patterns in all industries and domains. 58 established leaders combine durable evidence with current momentum, while 3 breakout signals are accelerating before reaching maturity.

Horizontal position is momentum; vertical position is maturityBubble size shows documented casesColor tracks momentumShowing a quadrant-balanced selection of 24 patterns, prioritized by combined maturity and momentum
02550751000255075100maturity threshold - 50Established staples: Maturity is 50 or higher while momentum is below 50. These patterns have durable evidence but quieter recent activity.Established staplesEstablished leaders: Both maturity and momentum are 50 or higher. These patterns combine durable evidence with current acceleration.Established leadersEarly-stage patterns: Both maturity and momentum are below 50. Evidence is still limited and recent activity remains modest.Early-stage patternsBreakout signals: Momentum is 50 or higher while maturity is below 50. These patterns are accelerating before the evidence base has matured.Breakout signalsMomentum indexMaturity score

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How this map is measured

Momentum is the active scope's 0-100 index of recent case activity, acceleration, recent share, and total evidence. Maturity is a 0-100 geometric mean of logarithmic case depth and observed history; case depth reaches full credit at 100 cases and longevity at 36 months. The 50-point dividers create a consistent reading frame for both axes. Bubble size represents total documented cases. Publication activity is evidence of documented adoption, not market share.

Evolution over time

Top use case types over time

Cumulative new cases since the window start · higher is faster growth

Among the top 6 momentum-ranked movers, Customer service automation has the highest accumulated volume: 101 cases accumulated since Aug 24.

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July 2026. 6 series compared. Customer service automation leads with 101 cases accumulated.

Top 6 use case types by momentum, reconstructed from each case's publish date. Cumulative resets to zero at the window start, so a line that lifts off zero marks when that use case type first entered the catalog.

Recent catalog signals

Early signals in use case types

Newly observed here, with evidence across organizations and months

Planning automation

AgentRAG
Rising

Earliest catalog evidence Mar 2026

10 cases in the last 6 months

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