Boardroom AI Monitor

a research instrument of AIMI Research PL
Edition 1 preview — context classification under revision after the manual review (19 Sep 2026); the headline number is based on frequency in the full text. Do not cite before publication. Generated: .
Number of the edition
companies in sample
10
AI mentions
median / 1,000 words
mentions with substance

Context map

Bar length = frequency of AI mentions (per 1,000 words of the FY2025 annual report); segments = the context in which the board writes about AI. Hover a bar for details.

Ranking and source mentions

Click a company row to expand the list of mentions (quote ≤25 words, page, term) — every number is auditable. * = context mix computed on a systematic sample.

Company Mentions /1,000 words Dominant context Substance Source

Robustness test

At N=10, a single company or the choice of estimator can shift a result several-fold. So every number goes through an estimator swap, leave-one-out, and stratification by document type — and the result is published alongside the report.

ClaimStatus
Sector gradient — digital > industrials > financials > resourcesrobust holds separately within each document type
Extremes spread robust follows directly from the data
Risk and regulation as the dominant contextrobust in the data caveat: annual reports carry mandatory risk sections
DAX↔WIG20 ratiofragile ranges depending on method; document type is also almost perfectly confounded with country in this edition

Methodology (summary)

What we measure. Frequency and context of AI mentions in FY2025 annual reports — the full Geschäftsbericht / integrated report (DAX companies) and the management board activity report or full annual report (WIG20 companies). Documents were retrieved exclusively from official, public investor-relations websites; one language version per document (local language preferred). Multilingual EN/DE/PL dictionary (AI, KI, künstliche Intelligenz, sztuczna inteligencja, machine learning, GenAI, LLM…); word-boundary matching, overlapping hits counted once; normalised per 1,000 words.

Context classification. Each mention (±2 sentences) → one class: revenue/growth, cost/efficiency, risk/compliance, talent, buzzword; plus a "substance" flag (a number, project name or concrete result). Classification by an LLM; a human reviews a random ≥10% sample before publication. For documents with very many mentions, the class mix is computed on a systematic sample (every k-th mention) — frequency is always computed on the full text.

Exclusion (conflict of interest): manufacturers of elevators and escalators — notably KONE, Otis, Schindler and TK Elevator — are permanently excluded from the sample. The author works in that industry; the exclusion applies to all editions.

Limitations. N=10, purposive sampling (largest companies, approximate DE↔PL sector pairing) — this is a signal, not a benchmark; results do not generalise to whole indices. Document type is almost perfectly confounded with country in this edition (the German companies supplied full annual reports, most Polish ones management board reports), so the country effect cannot be separated from the document effect; that is why the DAX↔WIG20 comparison is reported as a range rather than as a result. Reporting-culture differences may affect normalisation. Siemens' fiscal year ends in September 2025. "Mentions AI rarely" ≠ "is behind" — the report describes, it does not judge. Short quotes with attribution (fair use); no redistribution of full texts. Full methodology: metodyka.md (Polish) · robustness test: analiza-wrazliwosci.md (Polish) · source data: dataset.json (every mention with its quote, page and document checksum).