The study is BairesDev's own. Its chairman, Nacho De Marco, writes that boards set aggressive AI targets and then make the next round of decisions on the flattering progress reports that come back to them.
Reality
- Evidence28
- Adoption
- Insufficient
- Hype gap+35
- Incentives85
- Confidence62
Camunda's 2026 survey found 71% of organizations using AI agents and only 11% of use cases in production, and chief executive Jakob Freund blames a stack built one function at a time, a diagnosis that points at the layer his company sells.
Reality
- Evidence30
- Adoption25
- Hype gap+35
- Incentives85
- Confidence68
HYPR's September 15 survey of 500 US HR executives puts average unmonitored access for a fraudulent hire at 5.73 days, and the report's own detection figures undercut its chief executive's line about human intuition.
Reality
- Evidence34
- Adoption26
- Hype gap+38
- Incentives84
- Confidence52
Martin Kuppinger of KuppingerCole argues role-based access cannot hold an agent that makes probabilistic, multi-step decisions, and wants per-session credentials plus logs recording what the agent was told to do.
Reality
- Evidence28
- Adoption
- Insufficient
- Hype gap+30
- Incentives78
- Confidence52
Sophos's 2026 MSP Perspectives Report has 84% of providers expecting that demand to grow over the next 12 months, while 31% can fully automate reports at speed and 55% still consolidate activity by hand.
Reality
- Evidence40
- Adoption40
- Hype gap+32
- Incentives88
- Confidence60
Syskit's September 10 governance report has 76% of UK and US organizations running or piloting Copilot on Microsoft 365 data and 43% reviewing permissions and oversharing before switching it on. The findings are self-reported.
Reality
- Evidence34
- Adoption50
- Hype gap+25
- Incentives78
- Confidence48
buildOne report1 publisher The comparison buyers of AI data-governance tooling get shown is governed metadata against full-context stuffing; this harness also ran it against a cheap keyword filter, four times, under contracts frozen before collection.
Reality
- Evidence62
- Adoption15
- Hype gap−15
- Incentives38
- Confidence58
Prophet Security's report benchmarks attacker breakout at 29 minutes, which makes the hour of queue time before anyone opens an alert worth more than the 25 minutes AI takes off the investigation. The sample is the vendor's own.
Reality
- Evidence34
- Adoption48
- Hype gap+34
- Incentives88
- Confidence52
SentinelOne's 451 Research survey of 611 practitioners finds AI returns arriving at the bottom of the maturity ladder. It leaves the top of the ladder almost entirely unmeasured.
Reality
- Evidence22
- Adoption38
- Hype gap+58
- Incentives90
- Confidence66
DuckDuckGo's survey of nearly 2,000 US adults puts 53% in the dark about training defaults and 58% uncomfortable once told. The distance between those two numbers is the part product teams own.
Reality
- Evidence34
- Adoption38
- Hype gap+24
- Incentives82
- Confidence45