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.

Risk, legal & compliance

Target audience: General counsel, compliance officers, risk directors and data protection leaders

Risk and legal teams are adopting AI while also being asked to govern it. AI can accelerate contract review, regulatory monitoring and compliance reporting, but it also introduces new questions around privacy, IP, liability, bias and accountability.

Universal · asked in every interview

Three questions every leader answers

Function-specific · Risk, legal & compliance

Five questions tailored to your function

  1. 4

    How are you building AI governance that reduces risk without forcing the wider business into paralysis or driving shadow usage?

  2. 5

    Where are you finding AI adds genuine value in routine legal work such as contract review, drafting or regulatory monitoring, and where does the downside remain too high?

  3. 6

    How are you thinking about responsibility for the data, IP and liability risks that come with AI-generated outputs?

  4. 7

    How are you assessing and managing risk across your AI vendors and implementation partners?

  5. 8

    When an AI-supported recommendation or action causes harm, who is accountable, and how are you defining that in practice?

Ready to be interviewed for Risk, legal & compliance?

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.