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01THE FRONTIER / WHAT MATTERS NOW

Our current thesis

Three shifts changing the technology operating environment.

Frontier continuously separates meaningful structural change from the noise around it. These are the shifts we think technology leaders should understand now.

01

Agents are moving from isolated productivity experiments into the connective tissue of enterprise work.

3.8×growth in production agent deployments
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02FEATURED RESEARCH / COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE

Frontier Research

Research built to be used.

Rigorous, decision-grade analysis for CIOs, technology leaders, and the organizations serving them.

FR-026 / 09.26AVAILABLE FOR REPRINT

The Autonomous Enterprise

How AI agents reshape operating models, software architecture and technology leadership.

54 pages1,284 CIO responses22 executive interviews
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FR-024 / 08.26AVAILABLE FOR REPRINT

The New Economics of Intelligence

A field guide to model cost, inference architecture, capacity, and the emerging AI control plane.

46 pages17 datasets9 architecture patterns
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FR-021 / 07.26AVAILABLE FOR REPRINT

CIO 2030

The technology leadership mandate is expanding from systems stewardship to enterprise orchestration.

68 pages923 CIOs31 industries
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03DATA INSIGHTS / THE NUMBERS BEHIND THE CHANGE

Frontier Data

Evidence you can act on.
And cite.

Original CIO and enterprise technology data, designed for analysis, presentation, media use, and licensed distribution.

FRONTIER DATA / FD-0264101
68%

of CIOs are moving agentic AI from pilots into departmental production.

+23 pts since Q1Frontier CIO Pulse / Q3 2026
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FRONTIER DATA / FD-0261302
3.7×

increase in AI inference spend expected across the next 18 months.

Median forecastAI Infrastructure Index / 2026
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FRONTIER DATA / FD-0259803
41%

say SaaS consolidation is now directly linked to their AI operating model.

+11 pts QoQFrontier Software Survey / Q3
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04FRONTIER TELEMETRY / WHAT IS CHANGING NOW

Continuous intelligence

The technology landscape,
instrumented.

Frontier Telemetry tracks direction, velocity, and material change across the enterprise technology environment.

SELECTED / ACCELERATING

Enterprise Agents

Production deployment is broadening beyond service and software engineering.

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05DOMAINS / WHERE FRONTIER IS LOOKING

Research universe

A map of enterprise technology change.

Every Frontier research object is connected across a shared domain model — reports, telemetry, data, people, companies, and technologies.

01Artificial Intelligence

Models, agents, infrastructure, economics

02CIO Leadership

Operating models, talent, boards, transformation

03Enterprise Applications

ERP, CRM, SaaS, composable software

04Cybersecurity

Identity, resilience, AI security, risk

05Cloud + Infrastructure

Compute, network, edge, sovereign cloud

06Data

Platforms, governance, vector systems, knowledge

07Enterprise Architecture

Systems, integration, platforms, standards

08Digital Experience

Workplace, customer, interface, ambient UX

09Emerging Technology

Robotics, spatial, quantum, frontier systems

10Technology Economics

Cost, FinOps, procurement, productivity

06CIO / THE EXECUTIVE VANTAGE POINT
CIO

Where technology becomes enterprise strategy.

Frontier puts the CIO at the center of the technology conversation — not as a title, but as the vantage point from which architecture, economics, operations, leadership, and innovation converge.

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07FRONTIER AI / HOW WE SEE FURTHER
Human judgment.Machine-scale intelligence.
01SENSE

Detect meaningful change across markets, companies, technology and leadership.

02SYNTHESIZE

Connect primary evidence with the larger enterprise technology system.

03MODEL

Explore scenarios, second-order effects, dependencies, and trajectories.

04INTERROGATE

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