STATE OF AI REPORT
What Changed This Year.
An annual read on how firms with five to twenty five staff actually use AI, with every number cited to a public source you can open, and the method written down so you can argue with it.
14 years300+ Las Vegas businesses5-star rated
AI ADOPTION STATISTICS
What the report covers.
Five things, and each one is a number with a source next to it instead of a claim in a headline.
Who is actually using it
Adoption by business size and by industry, with professional services broken out, because a figure that averages a software company with a dental practice describes neither.
What they use it for
The specific jobs, ranked. The gap between what gets talked about and what gets used is the most useful thing in the whole report.
What it costs them
What firms this size actually spend, and how much of that is a subscription nobody opens. Every figure carries its source in the same line.
What went wrong
Abandonment. Which tools got dropped, at what rate, and the reasons owners give. Far less published than adoption and far more useful.
What changed locally
The Southern Nevada picture where public data allows it, so an owner in The Valley is reading about a market they recognize.
WHO THE REPORT IS FOR
Who the report is for.
Owners and principals of small professional firms who keep getting handed AI statistics with no source attached and want to know which ones hold up. Also for anybody writing a plan or a budget who needs a figure they can defend in a meeting.
It is not written for a technology audience. No architecture, no vendor scoring, and nothing that assumes you have an IT department.
HOW I MEASURE IT
Where the numbers come from.
Every figure comes from a source anybody can open. Government statistics, published vendor and industry surveys with their sample size shown, and public search and platform data. No private panel, no proprietary index.
Where a survey is small, the report says so. Where two credible sources disagree, both appear with the gap named instead of averaged away. Where nobody has published a number, the report says that instead of estimating one.
Each edition keeps its own address and stays up after the next one lands.
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READ THE LATEST EDITION
Read the 2026 edition.
The current edition is the 2026 report. Free, no email required to read it, and every source is a link instead of a footnote you have to go and find.
Earlier editions stay at their own addresses so a number you quoted does not quietly change underneath you.
If you send me your site afterwards and the audit says I am not the fix, I will tell you.
Pricing
What It Costs
$1,000/month
Per service line, monthly
Three months, because nothing real happens faster. If there is no movement by month three, you leave. Month to month after that. No setup or onboarding fee, and you own everything.
One service $1,000 a month, two $1,799, three $2,499. No setup or onboarding fee.
COMMON QUESTIONS
AI report questions.
What is the state of AI report?
An annual read on how small professional firms use AI: who has adopted it, for what, at what cost, and what they dropped. Every figure carries a public source in the same line, so it can be checked rather than believed.
Is it free?
Yes, and there is no email gate on reading it. Each edition sits at its own web address and stays there.
Where do the numbers come from?
Public sources only. Government statistics, published surveys with their sample sizes shown, and public search and platform data. If a figure cannot be sourced in print it does not go in the report.
How often is it updated?
Once a year as a full edition, with the year in the address. Older editions are not overwritten, because a report that changes after you cite it is not a source.
Can I quote it?
Yes, quote it and link to it. If you are quoting a figure that originally came from somewhere else, the report names that source too and citing the original is the better move.
Why does one marketer publish a report like this?
Because I am the one being asked these questions all year by owners in The Valley, and because AI is the engine behind how I work instead of a topic I read about. Writing the numbers down once, with sources, is faster than answering them one call at a time.
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Who does the work.
I pulled this together because the numbers owners get quoted are national and useless to them.
Fourteen years of this, all of it in the Valley, for over three hundred businesses.
There is no account manager sitting between us.
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