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What simulated failures reveal about resilience.
Each study puts resilience leaders inside a realistic AI disruption, examining the decisions they make, the tradeoffs they navigate, and their confidence in maintaining critical services.
REPORT 1 · OCTOBER 2026
The State of Resilience in Agentic AI Adoption
A critical agentic AI provider supporting a bank's fraud verification and sanctions screening goes offline. Across two video updates and seven decision points, 31 resilience leaders navigate the consequences.
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THREE KEY FINDINGS
16%Confidence in maintaining critical servicesOnly 16% expressed confidence in maintaining minimum service levels following the provider failure.
39%The workforce becomes the fallbackNearly four in ten participants turned to people-based solutions to restore operations disrupted by AI.
Resilience begins before the failureThe decisions made when AI is introduced into critical operations shape the options available when it fails.
THE RESEARCH SERIES
2 · IN DEVELOPMENTFrontier AdversaryExploring the operational consequences of emerging AI-enabled threats.