Why ProxDeck: the research
Sourced figures on personal AI use, shadow accounts, surprise AI charges, and time saved that never shows up on the P&L. The numbers are the publishers', linked below.
13.3%
of classified enterprise AI minutes are personal use.
Nearly half of that personal use is on enterprise plans.
Harmonic Security (opens in a new tab) · May 2026
Only 8%
of workplace AI users say their organization has a standard for the time AI saves.
AI is everywhere in most companies except the P&L.
Oliver Wyman Forum (opens in a new tab) · Oct 2026
78%
of workers whose employer provides an AI tool use it for personal tasks.
62% of them do it during work hours.
PYMNTS Intelligence (opens in a new tab) · Jun 2026
73%
of messages on consumer ChatGPT plans are non-work.
OpenAI / NBER (opens in a new tab) · Sep 2025
35%
of consumer Claude.ai use is personal.
60%
of finance leaders say they spend more on AI than they can justify.
CloudZero (opens in a new tab) · Jun 2026
22%
of finance leaders can tie AI spend to business results.
87% say they need that ability within a year.
CloudZero (opens in a new tab) · Jun 2026
78%
of IT leaders reported unexpected AI or consumption charges.
Zylo (opens in a new tab) · Jan 2026
32.3%
of GitHub licenses sit unused.
Zylo (opens in a new tab) · Feb 2026
$29/month
is Accenture's new cap on each person's Claude spend.
Some staff had been spending $1,000 a month.
404 Media (opens in a new tab) · Oct 2026
47%
of enterprise AI conversations happen through personal identities.
LayerX (opens in a new tab) · May 2026
90%+
of CIOs say managing cost limits the value they get from AI.
Gartner estimates cost errors of 500% to 1,000%.
Gartner (opens in a new tab) · Oct 2024
98%
of FinOps practitioners are managing AI spend.
Up from 31% two years ago.
FinOps Foundation (opens in a new tab) · Feb 2026
68%
of enterprise employees who use GenAI at work access it through personal accounts.
TELUS Digital (opens in a new tab) · Feb 2025
57%
of employees say they hide their AI use and present it as their own.
KPMG / University of Melbourne (opens in a new tab) · Apr 2025
78%
of AI users bring their own AI tools to work.
BYOAI, and the risk that comes with it.
37%
of the time AI saves employees is lost to fixing its output.
Saved an hour? Spent 22 minutes fixing it.
Workday (opens in a new tab) · Jan 2026
50%+
of regular AI users don't reinvest the time they save into more strategic work.
Time saved leaks out. Where's it going?
BCG (opens in a new tab) · Jun 2026
66%
of regular AI users get little or no guidance on what to do with saved time.
BCG (opens in a new tab) · Jun 2026
40%
of desk workers received low-quality AI-generated "workslop" at work in the last month.
Stanford / BetterUp (opens in a new tab) · Sep 2025