Whitepaper
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, and where most teams still sit
- How the bottleneck moves from generation to review, context, validation, and 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