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Is your team keeping pace with AI?

98% of Design and Make leaders are already using AI. Download Autodesk's 2026 State of Design & Make: AI Pulse report to benchmark where your team stands, and where the biggest opportunities are.

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AI has moved from experiment to expectation across architecture, engineering, construction and manufacturing. Autodesk surveyed 2,500 industry leaders worldwide, across 16 countries and regions, to find out how far that shift has really gone, and this report gives you the global benchmark data to make the case internally.

Cadpro is sharing it because the findings track closely with what we're seeing on the ground with our own AEC and manufacturing customers here in New Zealand: the tools are ready, but integration and training are where the real gap sits.

0%
of leaders use at least one AI tool
0%
report AI has increased productivity
0%
using or planning to use agentic AI within a year
0%
say integrating AI is their top challenge
design & manufacturing

What you'll learn:

  • Why AI adoption is now table stakes, not a differentiator, and what actually separates high performers from the rest
  • How "AI early adopters" are outperforming peers on decision-making, quality of output, innovation and cost, by double digits
  • What agentic AI actually is (and isn't) today, according to Autodesk's SVP of Research
  • The real barriers holding teams back: data quality, legacy system integration, and a training gap that's widening even as urgency grows
  • Real-world case studies, including how one construction firm cut 3D modelling and shop drawing production time by 25%

Compiled from a global survey of 2,500 industry leaders across AECO, design and manufacturing, and media and entertainment, spanning 16 countries and regions, including Australia, conducted by Autodesk with Statista Plus Research (Jan–Feb 2026).

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