AI strategy, corporate transformation, and executive decision-making for senior leaders driving AI adoption across the enterprise.
Four decisions, four owners, two meetings. How to design AI purchasing so the problem, the money, the risk and the signature stop collapsing into one conversation.
Ownership, payback and funding vary sharply by which executive chair answers. A side-by-side read of six seats, with every response base stated, and how to use it.
The September 2026 editions of the Enterprise AI Buying and Budget Index are live: twelve reports from 2,851 executives, founders, and investors.
Read →Work is furthest along, spend has not restructured, headcount is being substituted on the CEO's say-so, and governance moved fastest in August.
Read →The technology seat reports no AI owner at 30 percent, names itself signer at 26, expects fast payback at 39, and names agent access at 76.
Read →AI vendor revenue is earned by usage, outcome, flat, or seat, decided by which seat bought and how the contract pays.
Read →Where leaders responsible for enterprise AI find peers, and how an executive AI community differs from a developer meetup.
Read →Open Future Forum's peer room for the executives accountable for AI across enterprise — what it covers and how to join.
Read →What senior executives really tell us about AI adoption in 2026 — deployment, barriers, and returns — from Open Future Forum's first-party research.
Read →Every Open Future Forum report is now open on GitHub, archived independently on Zenodo and Software Heritage, and citable by a permanent DOI (10.5281/zenodo.21576019). The whole research library, made permanent and verifiable.
Read →An operator-research report on how the founders building AI price it and who they sell it to. The Founder AI Pricing Index reads 68 percent; zero of 148 founders named security as their buyer. Not affiliated with Y Combinator.
Read →A standalone, cross-lane operator-research report on how far executives have moved AI from pilots into the way their functions run. The transformation gap: deployment is real, funding and governance are not.
Read →Adoption is nearly universal. Transformation is rare. Five research reports worth your time this year, what each covers, and who should read it.
Read →AI research is a crowded shelf. A short list of the reports that actually change how executives make decisions about AI budgets, teams, and strategy.
Read →AI has flooded senior leaders with vendor noise and conflicting signals. The most reliable intelligence now comes from trusted peers — which is exactly what executive communities provide.
Read →Not all AI events are the same. Some are vendor showcases. Some are peer conversations with no agenda. What separates the signal from the noise.
Read →Forum Select is our invitation-only community for C-suite leaders and board directors actively shaping the AI era. Give-first philosophy, curated peer group, annual retreat.