The Arcana network
A shared perspective.
A personal connection.
Compare notes with enterprise AI peers, contribute your experience, and receive research you can bring back to your team.
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Voice of the AI Customer
Your experience.
A wider perspective.
Fortune 1000 leadership. Fact-based research from the buyer’s perspective. A team with 30 years of peer research.
Spend, vendors, roadmap, and line-of-business adoption, studied as a quarterly time series. Four proprietary indices, with the AI Yield Index activating after a second response.
Peer benchmarks, vendor intelligence, line-of-business use cases, and cross-functional collaboration. Research delivered in exchange for your time. All data anonymized.
Membership
What members receive.
- Your company’s AI Vital Stats™
- Your spend, vendor stack, adoption maturity, and technology roadmap—all in one place. A one-page tear sheet for your board and executive team, ready to present.
Explore the detail - A peer comparison benchmark
- See how your AI investments compare to anonymized Fortune 1000 peers in your industry and company size. Where you over-invest, where you under-invest, and where you’re ahead.
Explore the detail - The quarterly Pulse Report
- Aggregated findings from each wave of the Enterprise AI Pulse. Heat Index rankings, adoption snapshots, and the trends shaping enterprise AI.
Explore the detail - Your AI Maturity Index score
- A 0–100 composite of penetration, vendor stack coverage, commitment depth, and governance discipline. It arrives with your first response; with a second response, the AI Yield Index measures wave-over-wave business impact.
Explore the detail - Four indices, updated quarterly
- AI Maturity, Spend, Heat, and Vulnerability. Follow your program, where dollars flow, what peers plan to adopt, and which vendors face switching pressure.
Explore the detail - A private peer community
- Verified CTOs, CIOs, Heads of AI, and other enterprise decision makers. Invitation-only research dinners in major markets. Chatham House Rule.
Meet the team
Private dinners
Intimate gatherings.
Real connections.
No agenda. Chatham House Rule. You leave a dinner with people you’ll actually follow up with, a clearer view of what peers are dealing with, and something concrete to bring back to your team.
Heads of AI, CTOs, CIOs, VP Engineering, CDOs, SVP Product, Directors of ML, and VP AI Strategy. Every member is verified.
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Apply
Submit your application with your name, title, company, and work email. No questionnaires. No sales calls.
Meet the team
We schedule an introductory call. We walk through the research, answer your questions, and learn about your AI deployment.
Participate in the Pulse
Complete the Enterprise AI Pulse—a quarterly study of approximately 30 minutes covering your spend, vendors, and strategic priorities.
Receive your intelligence
Receive your AI Vital Stats™ briefing following participation. After the study closes, receive the Quarterly AI Pulse Report™ and aggregated peer findings. Additional indices and community access are available to members.
Eligibility
Selective because
the data demands it.
- $1B+ revenue and 2,000+ employees
- Active AI deployment beyond the experimentation phase
- Budget authority or direct influence on AI vendor and infrastructure decisions
These criteria keep the benchmarks and conversations relevant to every participant. Applications are reviewed within two business days.
Apply to joinBefore you join
A few practical questions.
Who qualifies for the network?
Enterprise decision makers at companies with $1B+ annual revenue and 2,000+ employees, with active AI deployment beyond experimentation and budget authority or direct influence on AI vendor and infrastructure decisions.
What is the commitment?
Approximately 30 minutes each quarter to complete the Enterprise AI Pulse. The team meets every prospective participant personally before they join the study.
What do participants and members receive?
Participants receive their AI Vital Stats™ briefing and Quarterly AI Pulse Report™. Members receive the longitudinal view through a private portal, including indices over time, peer cohort comparisons, and the research archive.
How is my contribution protected?
Responses are anonymized and reported in aggregate. Individual responses are not shared with vendors. Peer conversations follow the Chatham House Rule. The full methodology explains cohort suppression, retention, and withdrawal.
Can I see the format first?
Yes. Explore the illustrative AI Vital Stats™, peer comparison, and Pulse report examples in our sample library, or request a briefing from the team.
Membership
A place for
your perspective.
Contribute to the research. Get closer to the people shaping enterprise AI.
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