ThinkingAI released its 2026 Corporate AI Adoption Report, organizing the state of practical generative AI use by Japanese companies and the last-mile challenges facing Agents. The report was compiled based on sessions at AI Leaders EXPO Tokyo 2026 and additional public research.
ThinkingAI（シン Thinkingデータ株式会社）released the 2026 Corporate AI Adoption Report, which summarizes how companies are using AI. The report was compiled by organizing content introduced at sessions of AI Leaders EXPO Tokyo 2026 together with additional public research.
As highlights of generative AI use by Japanese companies, 86.4% use generative AI in their operations, while only 3.9% cited higher sales or profits as an effect of AI. The main uses were summarizing, translating and proofreading documents and audio, at 82.5%, while enhancing companies' own products and services accounted for 10.9%. Some 27.0% of companies had no organizational initiative to transform operations using generative AI, while 14.2% implemented AI risk management.
In Agent adoption, 90% of the last mile has already become commoditized before reaching the production environment, with the remaining 10% seen as the area where differences emerge. ThinkingAI calls this stage the “last mile” and expects 80% of scenarios to falter there. The last mile refers to the work of preparing 3 assets: a knowledge base, operational procedures converted into Skills, and user data.
ThinkingAI is a data solutions company established in 2015 that provides Agentic Engine, an enterprise AI Agent platform. Its design enables data collection and analysis through to executing measures on a single platform, allowing personnel to focus on decisions and approvals.