The CEO is the most frequently named signer. Across Open Future Forum’s common buying instrument, the CEO appears in 49 percent of answers, finance in 31 percent, the CIO or CTO in 17 percent, no single owner in 13 percent and an individual business unit in 10 percent (base 467, any mention). The question allowed multiple answers, so shares can sum above 100 percent.
What this does not prove: the result does not mean the CEO signs every purchase or holds sole authority. The question allowed multiple answers, and respondents were drawn from Open Future Forum event-registration flows, a selective operator sample rather than a probability sample. The figures were collected through September 30, 2026.
Primary sources: Executive AI Leverage Report, October 2026 and Executive AI Statistics, October 2026. Data collected through September 30, 2026 from a selective operator sample, not a probability sample.
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