The definitive benchmark for enterprise AI in Australia
Australian enterprises are deploying AI without a clear picture of where they stand. The Australian Enterprise AI Index measures Adoption, Governance, Investment, and Incidents across 6 industries every quarter — so boards, advisors, and the teams briefing them have an externally sourced reference point, not a marketing position.
Investment (45.7) and Adoption (43.4) lead Governance (42.8) this quarter. Incidents (41.6) remain the lowest-scoring dimension, reflecting elevated AI risk events across healthcare and government sectors.
AEAI Research Desk · Q2 2026
The national score, quarter by quarter
Toggle a dimension to isolate it. This is the chart boards ask for first.
How the Index works
From market signals to your board-ready benchmark — in four steps.
Signals collected
We track ASX announcements, government disclosures, enforcement actions, and AI product launches across 6 industries every quarter.
Score calculated
Four dimensions — Adoption, Governance, Investment, Incidents — each weighted 25%. Aggregated into a single 0-100 industry composite.
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A 5-minute self-assessment maps an organisation to the same 4 dimensions. Run it for your own org or walk a client through it. Anonymous. No personally identifying data stored.
Get the percentile + fixes
Instantly see where the org ranks vs its sector. The board-ready PDF identifies the lowest dimension and the 3 EAAPL patterns peers are using to close that gap.
Industry Rankings
LiveQ3 2026 · Composite score out of 100
Top Signals
LiveKey events shaping this quarter's score
Woolworths Group Project LIFT uses ML-driven demand forecasting across 1,000+ supermarkets — reducing food waste ~15% and improving on-shelf availability by ~400bps.
Commonwealth Bank deploys an agentic AI fraud detection system processing 80M+ signals daily across 20M+ payments per day, with fraud losses down more than 20% in 1H FY2026.
Big Four banks' combined AI and technology investment is on track to exceed AU$2B in FY2026 based on half-year disclosures, with AI named a strategic priority across all four institutions.
Federal Government commits AU$184M in direct AI line items in the 2026–27 Budget — including AU$70M AI Accelerator grants and AU$44M for AI & Digital Capability Centres.
Services Australia is trialling AI-assisted payments fraud detection under its 2025–27 Automation & AI Strategy, targeting significant coverage of payment events and reduced fraud-prevention intervention times.
What the Index measures
Four equally weighted dimensions. No guesswork. Open methodology.
Adoption
25%AI projects in production, agentic deployments, developer tool adoption across Australian enterprises.
Governance
25%Published AI policies, risk frameworks, ethics committees, and regulatory compliance posture.
Investment
25%AI-dedicated headcount, M&A activity, startup funding rounds, and enterprise AI contract announcements.
Incidents
25%AI hallucinations, bias complaints, regulatory enforcement, and data breaches linked to AI systems.
AI Vendor Landscape
Every vendor shaping enterprise AI in Australia — tiered by market position across foundation models, agents, governance, security, and more.
49
Vendors mapped
28
AU market presence
13
Market leaders
1
AU-headquartered
Foundation Models
Base LLMs and multimodal models powering enterprise AI deployments in Australia
Agent Platforms
Platforms for building, deploying, and managing autonomous AI agents in enterprise workflows
AI Governance
Frameworks and platforms for responsible AI policy, compliance, transparency, and lifecycle management
AI Security
Protection of AI models, inference pipelines, and LLM applications against adversarial attacks and misuse
AI Observability
Monitoring, tracing, evaluation, and debugging of LLM applications and AI pipelines in production
AI Risk
Enterprise risk management frameworks and platforms specifically addressing AI model and deployment risk
AI Training & MLOps
Infrastructure and platforms for training, fine-tuning, and operationalising AI models at enterprise scale
Where does the organisation rank?
Submit a quarterly AI State Declaration and receive an anonymous sector percentile — useful whether you're reporting to your own board or preparing a benchmark briefing for a client.
- →Sector percentile — anonymous vs peers
- →A board-ready 2-page PDF benchmark report
- →Recommended actions for the lowest-scoring dimension
National Q3 2026 shape — your org's will differ
A low score tells you what to fix — not just where you rank
The Australian Enterprise AI Index is built with aipatterns.com.au — Australia's enterprise AI architecture pattern library. The board report maps the weakest dimension directly to the patterns sector peers are already implementing.
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