AI readiness & ROI benchmark
Your teams use AI, but is it moving the numbers? We assess your AI use cases, data, governance and measurement, and benchmark your maturity against McKinsey's State of AI and Gartner's research on why AI projects stall.
What the market looks like.
| KPI | Market reference | Top performers / note | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| Organisations using AI in at least one function | 88% | 78% a year earlier | 1 |
| Report any EBIT impact from AI | 39% | — | 1 |
| Finance functions using AI | 59% | 91% report low or moderate impact initially | 3 |
| Agentic-AI projects cancelled by 2027 | 40%+ | Reasons: cost, unclear value, weak controls | 2 |
Adoption is no longer the gap; value is. The organisations that capture it measure a baseline, pick use cases with a clear cost line and put controls in place before scaling1,2.
Is this benchmark for you?
Industries
Every industry
Buyer
CEO & founder · COO & operations · CIO, CTO & IT
Company profile
Any size
Good first benchmark if you are new to AI
You need it if…
- Teams use AI tools but nobody measures the value
- You do not know which workflow to automate first
- Pilots stall before production
What we measure. What you get.
What we measure
- Inventory of AI tools and use cases in production
- Baseline and measured value for each use case
- Data readiness: access, quality, ownership
- Governance: approvals, human checkpoints, audit trail
- AI spend vs value delivered
What you receive
- Your maturity vs the McKinsey and Gartner references
- Use cases ranked by value, feasibility and risk
- The three workflows to fund first, with business cases
- 90-day plan with owners and success metrics
The full ai readiness & roi study.
Planned contents. Everything behind this page, in depth: the numbers by sector and company size, what top performers do differently, and a model to price your own gap.
- Market size and growth, every analyst estimate reconciled
- KPI quartiles by company size, sector and region
- Original survey data from decision-makers
- Cost-of-the-gap model with worked examples
- How top-quartile companies close the gap
- Solution landscape and a 12-month roadmap
- Self-assessment scorecard
Turn this benchmark into your custom workflow.
The benchmark shows where ai readiness & roi stands against the market. NEWMIND PARTNERS designs, builds and runs the workflow that closes your gap, built around the systems you already use.
Feasibility audit
We measure your workflow on your data (read-only), then compare every solution on the market, off-the-shelf or custom.
Design
The workflow that fits your systems, suppliers and approval rules, with a human checkpoint on every decision that matters.
Build and run
Senior engineers build it, connect it to the tools you already use and run it in production with an audit trail.
Prove it
Baseline on day one, then the change in cost, hours and cash, reported every month.
Start with a feasibility audit
Find out what your workflow really costs, which solution fits best, and the business case to back it. No commitment.
Four steps. No disruption.
Intake call
30 minutes with a senior engineer to agree scope, KPIs and the data we need.
Data, read-only
Exports or read-only access to the systems involved. Nothing is changed.
Analysis
Your numbers placed against the published market references, KPI by KPI.
Readout
Your position, the cost gap in dollars and a costed roadmap to close it.
Questions or a custom benchmark?
Ask the team about the ai readiness & roi report, or request a custom benchmark on your own data.
- Your maturity vs the McKinsey and Gartner references
- Use cases ranked by value, feasibility and risk
- The three workflows to fund first, with business cases
Sources
- 1McKinsey & Company, The state of AI in 2025 (1,993 participants). mckinsey.com/capabilities/quantumblack/our-insights/the-state-of-ai
- 2Gartner press release, “Over 40% of Agentic AI Projects Will Be Canceled by End of 2027” (25 Jun 2025). gartner.com/en/newsroom/press-releases/2025-06-25-gartner-predicts-over-40-percent-of-agentic-ai-projects-will-be-canceled-by-end-of-2027
- 3CFO Dive, reporting a Gartner survey of 183 CFOs and finance leaders (19 Nov 2025). cfodive.com/news/cfos-ai-adoption-slows-challenges-mount-gartner/805949/