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AI Leaders Survey 2026 — Second Edition
AI Ireland × Technology Ireland ICT Skillnet
The survey is asking about AI within an organisation
1.
What is your role?
C-suite/VP
Director/Head
Manager/Lead
Architect/Engineer
Product Owner
Other (please specify)
2.
What is the size of the company you work for?
1–10 employees
11–50 employees
51–200 employees
201–500 employees
501–1000 employees
1001–5000 employees
5000+ employees
3.
Which best describes your current AI adoption?
Not started
Experimenting / proof of concept
Piloting
Early production
Broad adoption
Multi-agent / orchestrated production
4.
What is the top AI outcome you want in the next 6–12 months?
Reduce incidents
Cost optimisation
Predictive maintenance
Engineer assistance
Governance
Process automation
Customer support automation
Other (please specify)
5.
What is the biggest current blocker?
Data issues
Security concerns
Skills / resources
Integration challenges
ROI questions
Governance / compliance
Tooling immaturity
Other (please specify)
6.
If you could start one AI use case within the next 90 days, what would it be?
Incident support
Cost optimisation
Predictive alerts
Contract intelligence
Workflow automation
Customer support assistant
Other (please specify)
7.
Which of the following agent patterns are you using or planning? (Select all that apply)
Single assistant agent
Specialist action agents
Router / supervisor agent
Human-in-the-loop orchestration
Event-driven agents
Autonomous background agents
Not using agents yet
Other (please specify)
8.
Do you currently use or evaluate any agent orchestration or harness platform?
Yes, in production
Yes, in pilot
Evaluating
No
Not sure
9.
If yes, which platform(s) are you using or evaluating?
10.
What is your stance on GenAI with ops or production data?
Prohibited
Sandbox only
Controlled use
Production ready
Unsure
11.
How important are sovereign AI requirements in your AI roadmap?
Critical
Important
Nice to have
Not relevant
Unsure
12.
Which sovereignty controls matter most to you?
Data residency
Local model hosting
Customer-managed keys
Auditability
Regulatory compliance
Operational control
Vendor independence
Other (please specify)
13.
Which governance controls do you have or plan to implement for AI and agents? (Select all that apply)
Role-based access
Prompt/version control
Audit logging
Human approval workflows
Data provenance and lineage
PII redaction / safety filters
SLA / runbook for agents
None yet
Other (please specify)
14.
How do you validate AI or agent behaviour before production? (Select all that apply)
Test harness / scenario testing
Shadow mode / canary testing
Synthetic data tests
Red-team / adversarial tests
Manual QA
Observability and metrics
Not testing today
Other (please specify)
15.
What metrics would show success for your AI or agent deployment? (Select all that apply)
MTTR reduction
Workload automated
Cost saved
Time saved per engineer
Fewer incidents
Faster detection
Compliance gaps closed
Customer satisfaction
Other (please specify)
16.
How are your AI projects or initiatives going so far? Please share any successes, challenges or lessons learned.
17.
Would you like to receive a copy of the survey findings?
Yes
No
18.
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