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AI use cases from real companies

Find the AI projects that work, and the evidence to back yours.

Real deployments at real companies: the business problem, what they built, what it took, and the results they reported. Every figure links to its source, so you can use it in your own business case.

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Energy & UtilitiesJul 2026

Octopus Energy

Octopus Energy's Arlo AI answers routine customer emails

Octopus Energy built Arlo, an AI assistant that writes replies to routine customer emails on the Kraken platform. In a three-month trial it handled about 4% of UK customer emails, and the company reported a higher satisfaction score than comparable human replies.

76%

Customer satisfaction, Arlo replies

Improve customer experienceRaise productivityCustomer Service
Technology & SoftwareOct 2024

Salesforce

Salesforce runs Agentforce on its own help site as Customer Zero

Salesforce deployed its Agentforce agents on help.salesforce.com in October 2024 and reports millions of conversations since. Its own figures put the share resolved without a human at 83% in December 2024 and 70% in June 2026.

Around 32,000

Conversations per week, December 2024

Cut costsImprove customer experienceCustomer Service
Banking & Financial ServicesMay 2024

BBVA

BBVA extends ChatGPT Enterprise from a pilot to all 120,000 employees

BBVA started with 3,000 ChatGPT Enterprise licenses in May 2024, grew to 11,000 employees, and in December 2025 announced access for more than 120,000. The bank reports that pilot users save about three hours a week.

More than 120,000

Employees to receive ChatGPT Enterprise

Raise productivitySupport employeesKnowledge Management
Banking & Financial ServicesAug 2024

JPMorgan Chase

JPMorgan Chase rolls out its LLM Suite to 200,000 employees

JPMorgan Chase built LLM Suite, an internal portal that gives employees secure access to external large language models. The bank says it went from zero to 200,000 onboarded users in eight months after its summer 2024 release.

200,000

Users onboarded, zero to this number in eight months (JPMorganChase)

Raise productivitySupport employeesKnowledge Management
Banking & Financial ServicesFeb 2024

Klarna

Klarna uses an OpenAI-powered assistant for customer service, then adds humans back

Klarna launched an OpenAI-powered chat assistant in its app and reported that it handled two-thirds of service chats in its first month. In 2025 the CEO said cost-focused automation had hurt quality and that Klarna was hiring human agents again.

2.3 million (about two-thirds of service chats)

Conversations handled in the first month

Cut costsImprove customer experienceCustomer Service
Retail & E-commerceMay 2025

Lowe's

Lowe's gives store associates an AI assistant, Mylow Companion

In May 2025 Lowe's rolled out Mylow Companion, a generative AI app on associates' in-store handheld devices, across more than 1,700 stores. It gives product details, project advice and inventory information, and is meant to speed up onboarding.

more than 1,700

Stores where associates received the assistant

Support employeesRaise productivityOperations

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