Wade Foster(@wadefoster):4 in 5 leaders say their teams are working around AI rules. Shadow IT applies to shadow AI too. @Zapier surveyed 548 directors, VPs, and C-suite leaders. In companies with 500 to 4,999 people, 81% report shadow AI. Over 5,000 people? That drops to only 64%. Better enforcement, or something else? The bigger orgs have more layers between the exec filling out a survey and the person actually building the workflow. So maybe that's lower visibility showing up as a better score? Playing devil's advocate, maybe the big orgs did invest earlier and it worked. I don't know for sure, and I'd want to see how they measure it before I’d believe that. Shadow AI shows up for the same reason every time: the approved path is slower than the workaround. 3 weeks and a ticket to get AI access, and people will find their own way. Data here:

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4 in 5 leaders say their teams are working around AI rules. Shadow IT applies to shadow AI too. @Zapier surveyed 548 directors, VPs, and C-suite leaders. In companies with 500 to 4,999 people, 81% report shadow AI. Over 5,000 people? That drops to only 64%. Better enforcement, or something else? The bigger orgs have more layers between the exec filling out a survey and the person actually building the workflow. So maybe that's lower visibility showing up as a better score? Playing devil's advocate, maybe the big orgs did invest earlier and it worked. I don't know for sure, and I'd want to see how they measure it before I’d believe that. Shadow AI shows up for the same reason every time: the approved path is slower than the workaround. 3 weeks and a ticket to get AI access, and people will find their own way. Data here: