Our latest AI Pulse survey of 71 professionals reveals a striking pattern: a majority of professionals report meaningful time savings from AI, with executives seeing the largest productivity gains.
When asked how many hours of work AI currently saves them in a typical week, respondents painted a picture of widespread but uneven productivity gains.
The largest group—33.8%—reported saving more than 12 hours per week. Another 23.9% said they save 4-8 hours, and 8.5% reported 8-12 hours.
Combined, 66.2% of respondents say AI is saving them at least 4 hours per week.
On the lower end, 28.2% reported saving just 2-4 hours, 4.2% said less than 2 hours, and 1.4% reported saving no time at all.
When we break down time savings by seniority level, a clear pattern emerges: executives are seeing the most dramatic results.
Among C-Suite and Executive respondents, 56.2% reported saving more than 12 hours per week, which is more than double the rate of any other group.
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However, when we look at respondents saving at least 4 hours per week, Management and Directors lead at 80.0%, followed by C-Suite at 68.8%, Business Owners at 66.7%, and Individual Contributors at 47.4%.
This suggests two dynamics at play. First, executives who have adopted AI appear to be going all-in, integrating it deeply enough to unlock substantial time savings. Second, Individual Contributors show the widest spread, with nearly half report modest gains (under 4 hours), while a third report the highest tier of savings (12+ hours).
The audience breakdown itself is notable: respondents are pretty evenly distributed across seniority levels.
28.2% are Management or Directors.
26.8% are Individual Contributors or Staff.
22.5% are Business Owners or Founders.
21.1% are C-Suite or Executives.
This balance makes the time-savings disparity more meaningful. Executives are not overrepresented in this sample. They simply appear to be extracting more value from AI when they use it.
Yet despite these gains, the majority of professionals have not yet adopted AI agents, or tools that act autonomously to complete multi-step goals without requiring a prompt for every action.
54.9% said they don't use any agents yet.
23.9% use agents occasionally.
21.1% use agents daily.
In other words, while 45% of respondents have started experimenting with agents, the majority of AI-driven time savings are still coming from more traditional, prompt-based interactions.
In our ongoing AI Pulse surveys, we gather insights from listeners of our podcast to get a sense of how our audience feels about various topics in artificial intelligence. Each survey is conducted over a one-week period, coinciding with the first seven days after an episode is released. During that time, our episodes typically receive around 11,000 downloads.
Our survey results reflect a self-selected sample of listeners who choose to participate, and typically we receive a few hundred responses. While this is not a formal or randomized survey, it offers a meaningful snapshot of how our engaged audience perceives AI-related issues.
In summary, when you see percentages in our headlines, they represent the views of those listeners who chose to share their opinions with us. This approach helps us understand the pulse of our community, even if it doesn’t represent a statistically randomized sample of the broader population.