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The AI Adoption
Ladder
Every AI adoption climbs the same ladder — from first pilots to the Dark Factory.
The paper explains why gains stall, maps the nine stages and their symptoms,
and the specific moves teams use to keep climbing.
What you'll learn :
Why output climbs while delivery stays flat — the AI Productivity Paradox
The nine rungs from Curiosity to the Dark Factory — where most teams still sit
How the bottleneck moves: generation → review → context → validation → product
A short diagnostic to find the rung your team is on today
What we learned moving 100 Odevo engineers to agentic coding in six weeks
