Echoloc Research
The hiring record doesn't lie.
Data reports on what companies are actually adopting, replacing, and building — measured from millions of public job postings, not surveys. A static stack tells you where a company was. Direction of change tells you where it's going.
Report 01·July 2026
Who's Actually Building with AI in 2026
We analyzed 4.7 million active job postings across 762,000 companies. 1,273 of them are hiring to build AI systems right now — and the most interesting adoption is happening outside the tech industry.
1,273companies building now
2.2×signal growth since Sep '25
51%of RAG adopters are non-tech
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Report 02 · Q3 2026 · In production
The Great SAP Migration, Measured
77 operating companies are hiring right now to move off SAP ECC — and 541 are staffing S/4HANA programs. Who's late, who's done, and what the 2027 deadline is really doing to enterprise hiring.
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