Today we’re publishing five new editions at once: the CEO AI Market Map, the Private Equity AI Market Map, the General Counsel AI Market Map, the Investment Banking AI Market Map, and the AI Leaders Market Map. Together with the CFO, CISO and CMO maps published in July, that brings the series to eight lanes, each one a companion to an existing report inside the Enterprise AI Buying & Budget Index.
Why five at once
Each of our existing reports reads one seat’s buying behavior: what CEOs approve, what GCs are asked to control, what bankers are underwriting. The market maps read the other side of the same question: what AI is actually being sold into each of those seats, organized by the workflow it touches rather than by vendor marketing category.
The CEO map follows eight responsibilities, from understanding the business to governing the consequences. The Private Equity map follows the deal lifecycle from sourcing to exit. The General Counsel map splits legal-department AI from enterprise AI governance, because they are different buying decisions made by the same office. The Investment Banking map follows origination through execution, with a horizontal layer for the financial data every workflow depends on. The AI Leaders map is the odd one out by design: it maps the operating stack a Chief AI Officer has to assemble, not a function's outside vendor purchases.
What stays constant across all eight
None of the eight maps rank vendors or score them. Each one organizes the market by workflow, states a value test specific to that seat (the OFF CEO AI Value Test, the OFF PE AI Value Test, and so on), and is explicit about what it is not: a survey of that seat’s executives. The survey data lives in the existing reports. The maps are a supply-side read of the market, built from public information and reviewed editorially.
We also held the line on not inventing evidence we don’t have. Three of the original maps, CFO, CISO and CMO, carry demand-side survey data because we had it. The five new maps don’t claim survey evidence where none exists; instead, each one names the Vendor Evidence Standard a fuller review would need to meet before any product is scored or ranked.
Where to start
If you only read one, read the map for your own seat. If you want the full picture, the research index now lists all eight market maps next to the reports they pair with, from the CFO AI Leverage Report down to the Investment Banking AI Report.