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AI Implementation Landscape 2026 · v3 snapshot, 20 Oct 2026

Who puts AIto work insidecompanies?

369 firms paid mainly to implement AI inside client organisations, mapped across 11 layers of the market.

Firms by how you would hire them
Hire a specialist team252Use who you already work with28Buy it as a product or fix the foundations81Go to the source8

369 firms mapped11 layers of the market51 M&A and investment deals tracked172 funding rounds logged

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369 firms

01 · 252 firms

Hire a specialist team

Firms whose main business is building AI for clients.

AI-native implementation firms

Best if you want a team that builds AI for you, end to end.

Firms built from the start to implement AI for clients.

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Regional & industry specialists

Best if you want a partner who knows your market or your industry.

Local and industry-focused firms implementing AI.

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Big consultancies & integrators

Best if you're a large enterprise that needs scale and change across many functions.

Established consultancies and system integrators adding AI.

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02 · 28 firms

Use who you already work with

Start with the IT provider or platform you already pay for.

Managed IT providers adding AI

Best if you're a smaller company and an outside IT provider already runs your systems.

Managed-service and IT-services providers being consolidated.

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Cloud & software platform programmes

Best if you're on AWS, Google Cloud, Microsoft, Salesforce or similar and want their certified partners.

Cloud and software platforms that embed engineers at customers.

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Software that comes with engineers

Best if you'd rather buy a platform and have its engineers set it up with you.

Software platforms that ship with their own engineers.

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03 · 81 firms

Buy it as a product or fix the foundations

Cheaper, productised routes, and the data and people work that projects stall on.

Data & integration partners

Best if your AI projects stall on messy, scattered or inaccessible data.

Data and integration partners that make AI usable.

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Training & change management

Best if the AI tools are in place but people aren't using them well.

Partners that train staff and manage the change to AI.

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Ready-made implementation software

Best if you want a cheaper, productised route instead of hiring a team.

Software that does the implementation work itself.

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Custom software built with AI

Best if you need bespoke software built fast, with AI doing much of the work.

Firms that build custom software with AI at the core.

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04 · 8 firms

Go to the source

The AI labs' own teams: good context, open to only a few very large customers.

AI labs' own deployment teams

Best if you're a very large customer of OpenAI, Anthropic, Google or a similar lab.

The AI labs' own deployment teams, placed inside customers.

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