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State of AI in Documents: How AI-mature Organizations Turn Adoption into Measurable Results

New Adobe research on what separates high-performing teams, from adoption and trust to governance and productivity, across the document lifecycle.

AI has moved past experimentation across the enterprise. Nearly all organizations (93%) report positive returns, and employees save an average of 15 hours a week. The real advantage now comes from how effectively teams operationalize AI across their document work.

Drawing on anonymized Acrobat data and a survey of roughly 800 senior leaders across HR, legal, and sales, you'll learn:

How high performers turn similar time savings into stronger productivity and business outcomes.
Where AI adoption, trust, and document workflows differ across HR, legal, and sales.
Why governance, leadership support, and measurement separate AI-mature organizations from the rest.

Benchmark your own AI maturity, close the gap between adoption and impact, and build the document workflows where AI delivers lasting business value.

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