2026 Research programme

Hum@ins at Work

What remains after AI?

A cross-sector research programme capturing how senior leaders are navigating the shift to AI-augmented operations across nine business functions and six core themes.

Each interview covers eight questions: three universal questions asked across every function, and five tailored to your specific role. Thirty minutes on Zoom. Questions shared in advance. Limited to 100 interviews across all nine functions for the 2026 report.

Find the questions for your function

Every interview is eight questions. Three are asked across all nine functions, and five are tailored to your role. Choose your function below to preview the full set.

C-suite & board

Target audience: CEOs, CFOs, COOs, CTOs, managing directors and board members

Senior leadership teams are setting AI direction for the whole organisation, often without a clear picture of what is working. Investment decisions are being made with incomplete data, and boards want visibility that reporting frameworks have not caught up with.

Universal · asked in every interview

Three questions every leader answers

Function-specific · C-suite & board

Five questions tailored to your function

  1. 4

    When your leadership team discusses AI investment, where do the biggest disagreements sit, and how are you resolving them?

  2. 5

    How are you giving the board visibility on AI progress and return without it becoming a reporting exercise that slows the work down?

  3. 6

    Which parts of your operating model do you believe AI should genuinely change, and where have you decided human-led ways of working still matter most?

  4. 7

    How confident are you that your workforce is ready to work with AI consistently rather than occasionally, and what has given you that confidence or concern?

  5. 8

    If you had to show the board credible evidence of AI’s productivity impact next quarter, could you, and what would that evidence look like?

Ready to be interviewed for C-suite & board?

30 minutes on Zoom. Questions shared in advance. Your one-pager published on the TechPros insights platform and included in the 2026 report.

What participants receive

A full-page write-up

A polished one-pager of your perspectives, written by TechPros, for you to use as you wish.

Insights publication

Featured on the TechPros insights platform and shared with senior leaders via LinkedIn.

Early access to the 2026 report

See how your views compare to peers across nine functions before the report goes public.

Roundtable invitations

Invitation to relevant Challenge Forum roundtables with other senior leaders in your function.

Podcast option

Option to appear on the Enterprise Thought Leadership Podcast to expand on your one-pager.

The interview process

1

Optional briefing call

15 min

TechPros walks through the format, confirms which function-specific questions will be used, and answers any questions.

2

Interview

30 min

On Zoom, with the eight questions shared in advance. Recorded for write-up. Ends with a short anonymous poll that feeds the report’s infographics.

3

Sponsor follow-up

20 to 30 min

A representative from the campaign sponsor, CogniScale, asks three or four follow-on questions to surface concrete examples.

4

One-pager review

15 to 30 min

TechPros walks through the draft one-pager, captures your feedback and confirms the publication date.

5

Publication

Your one-pager is published on the TechPros insights platform. We email you a week before and on the day, with a draft LinkedIn post you can reshare.

Add your voice to the 2026 report

Nine functions. The reality from people running the businesses, not the conference slides.