Citation Sweep — The AI Adoption Gap

Purpose

This record documents the citation sweep for the bundle's first brief, The AI Adoption Gap. Under this bundle's posture, the briefed analyst article is the primary source for its own figures, so the sweep verifies that every figure on the page matches what the article states, and that each is tagged with the right provenance.

Audit conducted: June 30, 2026.

Scope: the single page above, against its source, the HFS Research article "The AI balloon is bursting and services must be ready to pick up the pieces" (Saurabh Gupta and Phil Fersht, June 25, 2026).

Method

Every figure on the page was checked verbatim against the live article: the source header (title, authors, date), the four public-market figures, the four adoption figures, the four forecast figures, and the 90-day outcome bar. Each was classified by provenance — the author's own, attributed to a third party, or publicly checkable — and the page's tags were checked against that classification.

Summary verdict

Clean. All fifteen figures match the article exactly. None was fabricated, misquoted, or misattributed; the arithmetic complements (13% / 87%, 20% / 80%) are consistent. The page's provenance tags are accurate: the load-bearing numbers are correctly marked as HFS's own, and the public-market facts are correctly marked publicly checkable with the explicit caveat that the article names no data provider.

The brief also discloses, in How much to trust it and The fine print, that HFS's own figures are self-attributed and externally unverified, and that the public-market facts should be re-sourced to filings before reuse. Those disclosures are accurate and are the point of the bundle's posture, not a defect.

Follow-ups

None. The page is sound as published.