US: applications and work
The BTOS AI supplement explores business functions, tasks and changes to work. Its survey period differs from the regular fortnightly adoption measure.
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AI Adoption Explorer
Compare adoption indicators across countries and explore how evidence varies by business size and sector. Follow a question, inspect the sources and keep the findings worth discussing.
Start with a question
How common is AI use in this market? Which technologies are businesses using? What can another sector teach us?
Adoption is context, not a business case. The tool shows what the evidence covers—and where a comparison stops.
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Read the dates and definitions. European headline evidence is checked against Eurostat when you open the tool, with a dated snapshot as fallback. US and European detail, and UK, Canadian and Australian comparisons, use dated source snapshots. Coverage varies: these figures are context, not a precise benchmark for an individual business.
01 / THE INTERNATIONAL PICTURE
Start with a fair comparison
Compare European countries within the same survey framework. Explore other markets in their own evidence panels below.
Share of enterprises using AI0% — 100%
Missing or suppressed observations are shown as unavailable, never as zero. Click a country to inspect its evidence.
DIFFERENT SURVEYS / SEPARATE CONTEXT
Beyond Europe
These figures describe different populations and periods. They are not a global league table.
US CENSUS / BTOS
Explore US adoption in detail
Explore reported use and expectations by industry, size, or both together. Businesses in other countries can use these findings to frame questions and possibilities.
EUROSTAT / MORE THAN A HEADLINE
What are businesses using AI for?
Explore technologies and business purposes within a country and employment-size group. Figures are percentages of all enterprises in the covered group, including those that do not use AI.
02 / YOUR BUSINESS CONTEXT
Find the closest available evidence
A relevant comparison begins with geography, industry and size. We show what matches—and where the evidence stops.
INTERPRET THE RESULT
Adoption is context, not a business case
A peer group’s use of AI tells you how common adoption is—not whether a particular investment is worthwhile, how deeply AI is deployed, or whether it produces a return.
03 / UNDERSTAND THE DENOMINATOR
Why do the numbers disagree?
Select two evidence sources. See what each counts before interpreting the gap.
FOLLOW THE QUESTION
Explore beyond your closest peers
Your home market is a starting point. Evidence from another market or sector may suggest applications, barriers or questions worth investigating. Record what could transfer to your business and what needs testing.
UK: breadth and integration
ONS’s July 2026 analysis examines technologies, uptake and integration. Use it to frame questions alongside the dated UK adoption snapshot above.
Explore the ONS analysis ↗Canada: intentions
The Q3 2026 tables cover planned AI use over the next 12 months. Explore intentions separately from the actual-use findings in the main comparison.
Explore planned-use tables ↗Australia: SME context
Explore the official tracker for local SME perspectives. Check the survey’s employment bands, period and definitions before transferring a finding.
Explore the Australian tracker ↗These links open the source publications. The US detailed tab imports core adoption and expectation tables; the specialist supplement and the other linked analyses remain external research routes.
YOUR RESEARCH NOTEBOOK
Keep the evidence worth returning to
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METHOD & SOURCES
Evidence you can inspect
How these comparisons work
Country charts use Eurostat’s common framework and a single reference year. Industry and size breakdowns come from separate datasets: this edition does not infer joint country × industry × size estimates. In peer views, those dimensions are therefore shown separately.
Coverage is limited to published survey populations. Eurostat generally covers enterprises with at least 10 people employed in specified non-financial activities. Employment includes self-employed persons. Financial activities, agriculture and mining are outside its core population. Survey flags are retained. A shared framework improves comparability; it does not eliminate sampling uncertainty or national differences.
Eurostat expanded the listed technologies in 2025. Changes over time can partly reflect questionnaire changes. The Netherlands has a flagged break in series. Missing years are never interpolated. No pooled global adoption rate is calculated.
Data freshness and update status
UK, Canadian and Australian figures are verified snapshots, with their periods shown. US headline and peer results use the newly imported BTOS tables; the detailed US tab preserves survey periods and source wording. This tool is not a continuously updated international monitor. Use the dates on each result when interpreting the evidence.
Sources, reuse and interpretation
- Eurostat: AI by enterprise size and AI by economic activity. Source values are reformatted and filtered; © European Union, reuse with attribution.
- US Census Bureau: Business Trends and Outlook Survey.
- ONS: BICS, 8 October 2026.
- Statistics Canada: CSBC, Q2 2026.
- Australian National AI Centre: December 2025–February 2026 overview and survey method.
Explanatory notes follow fixed editorial rules and the published survey definitions. Profiles and saved research stay in this browser; no email address is collected. Download your notebook to keep an independent copy. Saved research preserves the evidence at the time of saving; reopening a live comparison may show newer data.