"What models is your company actually running?" Vendor press releases say one thing. Procurement dashboards say another. This anonymous census asks the people who see production traffic every day — no names, no emails, no company names, no tracking. The aggregate becomes the public census.
A shadow model is any AI model running inside a company without official approval or tracking — adopted through APIs, side projects, or personal accounts. Each one carries unvetted data-handling, retention, and deprecation risk.
GoodFirms' AI-tool tracking of 14,022 active companies: ChatGPT — 11,359 companies · Claude — 10,103 · Gemini — 4,294. At the developer level it's neck and neck: Stack Overflow's 2026 survey found Anthropic 74.4% vs OpenAI 74.1% usage — but 49% of developers want to use Anthropic next year vs 32.1% for OpenAI.
Stack Overflow's 2026 developer survey found that only 24% of companies have published an approved AI toolset or a formal AI policy — leaving the majority of developers making tool choices individually. If you run a model at work that procurement doesn't know about, congratulations: you're shadow AI, and this census is for you.
A June 2026 research compilation (McKinsey, BCG, Gartner, Deloitte, IBM, KPMG surveys) estimates ~85–90% of large enterprises have at least one production LLM deployment, 55–65% run multiple frontier LLMs concurrently, and enterprise frontier-LLM API spend topped $15B in H1 2026 — on track to exceed $35B for the full year. Estimated enterprise spend share: OpenAI ~40–45%, Anthropic ~25–30%, Google ~15–18%, Meta 5–8%.
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Subscribe to the newsletter →Yes. The form asks for no names, no emails, no company names and collects no IP addresses. Responses are stored only in your browser's localStorage as a device-only demo so you can see how the aggregate view works.
Because much enterprise AI use is shadow IT: Stack Overflow's 2026 developer survey found only 24% of companies have published an approved AI toolset or formal AI policy, leaving the majority of developers making tool choices individually.
GoodFirms' AI-tool tracking of 14,022 active companies finds ChatGPT used by 11,359 companies, Claude by 10,103, and Gemini by 4,294. Stack Overflow's 2026 developer survey found Anthropic and OpenAI usage neck and neck at roughly 75% each.
A June 2026 compilation of major research-firm surveys estimates enterprise frontier-LLM API spend topped $15B in H1 2026, on track to exceed $35B for the full year — with 85–90% of large enterprises reporting at least one production LLM deployment.
After enough responses come in, the aggregated results will be published as a public census. Subscribe to the Ingenious AI newsletter to be notified the day it launches.
Yes. The form asks for no names, no emails, no company names and collects no IP addresses. Responses are stored only in your browser's localStorage as a device-only demo.
Because much enterprise AI use is shadow IT: Stack Overflow's 2026 developer survey found only 24% of companies have published an approved AI toolset or formal AI policy.
GoodFirms' AI-tool tracking of 14,022 active companies finds ChatGPT used by 11,359 companies, Claude by 10,103, and Gemini by 4,294. Stack Overflow's 2026 developer survey found Anthropic and OpenAI usage neck and neck at roughly 75% each.
A June 2026 compilation of major research-firm surveys estimates enterprise frontier-LLM API spend topped $15B in H1 2026, on track to exceed $35B for the full year.
After enough responses come in, the aggregated results will be published as a public census. Subscribe to the Ingenious AI newsletter to be notified the day it launches.