AI Engineering Report 2025

Feeling the AI pinch?

You’re not alone.

Companies in between the rapid startup and enterprise level phase are being squeezed.

Why?

Because you are competing ‘up’; against enterprise who have cornered scarce research talent to essentially deliver “AI Research as a Service” APIs. They are broadening the scope of their product offering to take more of your market share.

You are competing ‘down’; against 3-person laser-focused AI startups raising millions of dollars to better solve a single part of your product suite for a fraction of the cost.

And you are competing ‘laterally’; against similar-sized competitors, drastically cutting costs, testing new products and doing what it takes to create motes around their (increasingly more fluid) clients.

I haven’t written this to cause panic. I have written this to help companies step out of the AI headlights and get on the counterattack…. read more.

What is included in this report: 

– Why you need an AI Engineer and how to hire them

– What AI Engineers want now

– What AI Engineers cost