Autodesk surveyed 2,500 industry leaders across architecture, engineering, construction, design and manufacturing to find out. Get the full 2026 State of Design & Make: AI Pulse report and see how your organisation compares.
Design and Make organisations everywhere are under the same pressure: adopt faster, prove ROI, and close the gap between AI enthusiasm and AI capability. Autodesk’s latest AI Pulse research, a global survey of 2,500 leaders across 16 countries and regions, puts numbers behind that pressure, from agentic AI adoption rates to the specific factors separating early adopters from everyone else.
Cadgroup is making this report available so ANZ leaders can benchmark their own progress against the global picture and plan the next 12 months with more confidence.
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81%
organisations will boost AI investment this year
65%
of leaders now use AI to support decision-making
44%
are prioritising AI agents for investment next year
60%
cite security is the top AI concern, up 7 points
Inside the report:
- The shift from AI as a productivity tool to AI as an active layer in how work gets organised and decisions get made
- Benchmark data on generative AI, agentic AI, predictive AI and decision-support AI investment priorities
- The “Early Adopter Advantage”, quantified gaps in decision-making, quality, innovation and cost between leaders and laggards
- Why data foundations (security, structure, common data environments) are now prerequisites, not nice-to-haves
- Cross-industry case studies spanning construction, design and manufacturing, including a 95% design-efficiency gain through generative design
Based on a global survey of 2,500 leaders across AECO and D&M industries in 16 countries and regions, including Australia, conducted by Autodesk with Statista Plus Research, January – February 2026.
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