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Monthly pulse

AI agent use pulse survey

We are studying how skilled professionals use AI agents. Please answer based on your experience during the past 30 days.

Do not include client names, confidential information, proprietary prompts, or specific project details. Results will only be reported in aggregate.

For this survey, an AI agent is a tool that can plan and carry out a multi-step task, such as editing code or files, conducting research, using tools, or working autonomously with limited guidance. A simple chatbot conversation does not count.

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Setup

A few details about you

What is your age?
Which best describes your main employer’s or clients’ policy on using AI agents for work?

Section 1 · Agent usage

Your current use of AI agents

Are you using AI agents in your work for any tasks?

Section 1 · Tools

Which agents have you used — or want to use?

For each tool, choose Have used or Want to use (optional).

Section 1 · Primary agent

Your primary agent

Which agent do you use most often?
Which agent would you choose first if all the tools were available at the same price?
How long have you been using your primary agent?
Is your primary agent different from the one you used most often a month ago?

Section 1 · Work context

How you use agents at work

What types of work do you use AI agents for? Select up to three
In the past 30 days, in which of these ways have you used AI agents? Select all that apply
Approximately what share of your work involves an AI agent?
Share of work—

Move the slider to set a value (0% is allowed).

Section 2 · Most recent substantive task

Think about your most recent completed task

Focus on a task with your primary agent that would normally have required at least 30 minutes of your own work, or that you would not reasonably have attempted without the agent.
How difficult was this task for someone with your skills?
About how long would this task have taken you without an AI agent?
What happened?

Section 2 · Effort & reliability

Effort, intervention, and recent success

Including prompting, monitoring, checking and correcting the output, how did the total effort compare with doing the task yourself?
How many times did you need to redirect or intervene because the agent was going in the wrong direction?
Think about your last 10 substantive agent tasks. How many produced results usable with little or no correction?

Section 3 · Productivity

Past 7 days

Please answer based on your AI agent use during the past 7 days.

Overall, how much net time did AI agents save you during the past 7 days? Also consider time spent prompting, monitoring, checking, and correcting output.
Last week, the time AI agents saved you mostly went to? Select up to 2
Compared with working without AI agents, how did they affect the amount of work you completed?

Section 3 · Economic value

Value and spend

What is your best estimate of the total value AI agents created for you in the past week? Consider time saved, additional work, quality, newly possible work, and costs avoided — minus supervision time.
Who pays for your primary agent?
Approximately how much do you personally spend on AI agents each month?
What was the main value you received from using AI agents? Select all that apply

Section 4 · Reliability & trust

Delegation and capability

Approximately what share of your agent-assisted tasks do you delegate end-to-end, rather than completing alongside the agent step by step?
End-to-end delegation—

Move the slider to set a value (0% is allowed).

What is the highest level of work you would currently allow your primary agent to complete without step-by-step supervision?
Separately from what you would allow: what is the highest level of work your primary agent can technically perform in your current setup?

Section 4 · Incidents & satisfaction

Final questions for agent users

During the past 30 days, did an AI agent cause or nearly cause any of the following? Select all that apply
Thinking about your primary agent overall, how much do you agree or disagree?

Non-user branch

A couple of questions about not using agents

Why did you not use an AI agent during the past 30 days? Select all that apply
How likely are you to use an AI agent during the next three months?
Adoption intent—

Move the slider to set a value (0% is allowed).

Thank you

Your responses have been recorded. Results are only reported in aggregate.