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Adobe — Enterprise Insights Bundle

The Fortune 1000's single heaviest AI buyer, read from 1,187 of its own job postings — and the API surface behind it.

$1,500.00 Version 1.0 · July 2026
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database The AI data bundle — every provider, scored (JSON/CSV/YAML)
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About this paper

Of 932 Fortune 1000 companies with a technology signal, Adobe ranks first on AI investment — 11.5× the median. Not top-ten; first. Its own job postings show what that means in practice: Python in 221 of 1,187, then AWS, Kubernetes, React, Spark, Kafka, and an explicitly named MLOps practice.

Its public API surface scores 69.5 on the Kin Score, above its cohort’s average, with 21 published OpenAPI definitions and a first-party MCP server. But the operational layer is where it thins out — operational transparency is Adobe’s weakest facet by a distance, and eight of fourteen agent-readiness dimensions are unmet: no error catalogue, no event contracts, no agent skills.

For a vendor, that combination is the whole brief: the budget is unambiguously there, and the gap is operational rather than strategic. Every technology carries the number of the account’s own postings it was found in and the term it matched on, so any claim can be checked or discarded.

What's inside

  1. Executive summary — the Fortune 1000's heaviest AI buyer
  2. What this account is buying — all 41 investment dimensions vs the Fortune 1000
  3. The incumbents, the distinctive choices, and the stack broken out by kind
  4. Where the gaps are — verified against all 1,187 postings
  5. The org map — function, location, posting recency, platform affinity
  6. The peer cohort — 39 enterprise software and productivity peers
  7. The supply side — 21 specs, provenance, and the operational-transparency gap
  8. What the account publishes about itself — 76 of its own documents
  9. The openings — entry points, displacement targets, and discovery questions

database Includes the AI data bundle

This report ships with a machine-readable data bundle — the evidence behind every number, packaged to drop straight into the AI tool of your choice. Converse with the research you bought, check any claim against the source data, and take it further than the PDF.

data_object providers.json / .csv / .yaml — every provider, layered raw → enriched → derived
table_rows scores.csv & rankings.csv — facet-by-facet scores, composite vs. agent-readiness rank
insights market-stats.json & capabilities.json — sector averages, band distribution, per-provider artifact inventory
forum AI-START-HERE + data dictionary, methodology & prompts — a paste-in primer so your AI reads it correctly

folder_zip Delivered as a single ZIP alongside your PDF and Word edition at checkout.

What you get for $1,500.00

picture_as_pdf A print-ready, formatted PDF edition
description The editable Word (.docx) source
database The AI data bundle — every provider scored, as JSON/CSV/YAML
forum An AI conversation primer so you can query the research directly
checklist The anti-patterns & self-assessment checklist
update Every future revision of this living paper
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