Deloitte
5 storiesDeloitte is a professional services firm offering audit, consulting, tax and advisory work. Recent coverage focuses on AI: its UK business raised average equity partner pay about 7% to roughly £1.13 million ($1.5 million), driven by demand for AI advice; a Deloitte survey found almost one in ten UK workers use AI tools their employers would ban or disapprove of; and its 2026 report says worker AI access rose 5% in 2025, with the share of firms running at least 40% of AI projects in production expected to double within six months.
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Get Covered COO Rick Folgmann says his firm runs 16 AI agents across 3 million-plus rental units, and the hard part was deciding who each agent reports to. He advises starting with rule-bound tasks and giving agents written rules, scope and regular review, citing Deloitte's finding that 23% of firms use agentic AI today and Gartner's forecast that over 40% of agentic projects will be canceled by end-2027.
Deloitte's UK business raised average equity partner pay to about £1.13 million ($1.5 million) last year, up 7%, driven by profit from demand for AI advice.
As AI shifts from experimentation to production workloads, consumption-based pricing can make costs unpredictable. Deloitte's 2026 report shows worker AI access rose 5% in 2025, and the share of companies with at least 40% of AI projects in production is expected to double within six months. Leaders must decide whether to buy AI per request or invest in capacity they can optimize and control.
Family offices, overseeing $5.5 trillion in wealth as of 2024 per Deloitte, are increasingly bypassing VC funds to buy existing AI shares or strike direct deals, gaining faster exposure while keeping control of their money. Advisor Djoann Fal says a risk-hungry new generation prefers AI deals that can triple money in three months over traditional three-year plays.
A Deloitte survey finds almost one in ten UK workers used AI tools their employers would ban or disapprove of, highlighting tensions over workplace AI policies and trust. The report did not disclose sample size in the summary.
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