signal/AI CENSUS RELEASE / OCT 8, 2026
United States/States/North Dakota
State profile · Midwest

North Dakota AI Statistics

Business AI adoption in North Dakota, its trajectory over time, and the platforms shaping this state profile.

Businesses using AI
15.0%
Previous two weeks · Census BTOS
Expect to use AI
18.7%
During the next six months · Census BTOS
Recent average
17.6%
5 of 6 biweekly observations · calculated
Versus the U.S. estimate
-8.8 pp
Latest current use · percentage point difference

Business adoption over time

Share of employer businesses · revised AI question, November 2025 onward

North Dakota current and expected business AI use. Full values are in the observations table below.0%20%40%60%Nov 30, 2025 · current: 15.7%Dec 28, 2025 · current: 10.5%Feb 22, 2026 · current: 14.0%Mar 22, 2026 · current: 16.7%May 17, 2026 · current: 15.0%Jun 28, 2026 · current: 14.2%Jul 12, 2026 · current: 19.2%Jul 26, 2026 · current: 10.1%Aug 23, 2026 · current: 20.6%Sep 6, 2026 · current: 23.3%Sep 20, 2026 · current: 15.0%Dec 28, 2025 · expected: 10.1%Feb 22, 2026 · expected: 14.8%Mar 8, 2026 · expected: 10.4%Mar 22, 2026 · expected: 16.0%May 17, 2026 · expected: 15.0%May 31, 2026 · expected: 18.2%Jun 14, 2026 · expected: 23.1%Jun 28, 2026 · expected: 13.8%Jul 12, 2026 · expected: 22.2%Jul 26, 2026 · expected: 14.8%Aug 23, 2026 · expected: 21.3%Sep 6, 2026 · expected: 23.2%Sep 20, 2026 · expected: 18.7%Nov 2025Apr 2026Sep 2026
Current useExpected use in next six months
Gaps indicate suppressed observations. Expected use is what businesses report anticipating, not a measured future outcome.
Reading North Dakota’s data

North Dakota’s latest reported current-use rate is 8.8 percentage points below the national estimate of 23.8%. This is a descriptive comparison of survey estimates.

Latest current-use standard error: 4.17 percentage points. The recent average uses 5 of six periods; suppressed values are omitted. State estimates are subject to sampling variation.

Coding tool scores

Score / 100

Platform scores · North Dakota

01
OpenAI Codex
89
02
Claude Code
79
03
Cursor
71
04
GitHub Copilot
66
05
Gemini Code Assist
54
Score scale: 0–100.

Chat platform scores

Score / 100

Platform scores · North Dakota

01
Google Gemini
90
02
ChatGPT
89
03
Claude
72
04
Microsoft Copilot
62
05
Perplexity
60
Score scale: 0–100.

North Dakota and the national benchmark

Same reference period · Sep 7, 2026–Sep 20, 2026

North Dakota
15.0%
United States
23.8%
0%20%40%

Census estimates are weighted survey measures of employer businesses. Different industry mixes and sampling error can affect comparisons.

Other Midwest states

Closest recent averages · descriptive comparison

Iowa18.6%
Wisconsin19.5%
Indiana20.1%
Nebraska20.2%

Average of available observations in the same six-period window. Coverage may differ.

Headquarters-based company research

AI use at North Dakota organizations

Selected companies headquartered in this state · public statements and reported use · reviewed October 11, 2026

Company / headquartersNamed platforms / toolsPublic AI comments & evidenceSources
Eide Bailly
Fargo
Microsoft CopilotAuthor-described use
Jan 6, 2026

An Eide Bailly tax-blog author describes asking Copilot AI for help in a published roundup.

Evidence of a specific author's use; it does not establish an enterprise rollout or specify the Copilot license tier.
Headquarters source ↗Eide Bailly · tax blog ↗

Comments are paraphrased. Employee deployment, product integrations, pilots, and hiring statements have different scopes. A headquarters location does not locate every employee or prove state-wide tool popularity. Unnamed providers remain undisclosed. This is a selected evidence sample, not an exhaustive company census.

Browse company evidence across all 50 states ↗ · Download research data ↓

Behind the figures

Current-use question: “In the last two weeks, did this business use Artificial Intelligence (AI) in any of its business functions?”

The recent average is the arithmetic mean of available current-use estimates for the last six periods, Jun 29, 2026–Sep 20, 2026. It is calculated from the source workbook and is not an official Census aggregate. Standard errors are published Census values. The AI question broadened in November 2025, so the chart starts with the revised series.

View all 23 source observations
Reference periodCurrent useExpected useRelease date
Sep 7, 2026 – Sep 20, 202615.0%18.7%Oct 8, 2026
Aug 24, 2026 – Sep 6, 202623.3%23.2%Sep 24, 2026
Aug 10, 2026 – Aug 23, 202620.6%21.3%Sep 10, 2026
Jul 27, 2026 – Aug 9, 2026SuppressedSuppressedAug 27, 2026
Jul 13, 2026 – Jul 26, 202610.1%14.8%Aug 13, 2026
Jun 29, 2026 – Jul 12, 202619.2%22.2%Jul 30, 2026
Jun 15, 2026 – Jun 28, 202614.2%13.8%Jul 16, 2026
Jun 1, 2026 – Jun 14, 2026Suppressed23.1%Jul 2, 2026
May 18, 2026 – May 31, 2026Suppressed18.2%Jun 18, 2026
May 4, 2026 – May 17, 202615.0%15.0%Jun 4, 2026
Apr 20, 2026 – May 3, 2026SuppressedSuppressedMay 21, 2026
Apr 6, 2026 – Apr 19, 2026SuppressedSuppressedMay 7, 2026
Mar 23, 2026 – Apr 5, 2026SuppressedSuppressedApr 23, 2026
Mar 9, 2026 – Mar 22, 202616.7%16.0%Apr 9, 2026
Feb 23, 2026 – Mar 8, 2026Suppressed10.4%Mar 26, 2026
Feb 9, 2026 – Feb 22, 202614.0%14.8%Mar 12, 2026
Jan 26, 2026 – Feb 8, 2026SuppressedSuppressedFeb 26, 2026
Jan 12, 2026 – Jan 25, 2026SuppressedSuppressedFeb 12, 2026
Dec 29, 2025 – Jan 11, 2026SuppressedSuppressedJan 29, 2026
Dec 15, 2025 – Dec 28, 202510.5%10.1%Jan 15, 2026
Dec 1, 2025 – Dec 14, 2025SuppressedSuppressedDec 31, 2025
Nov 17, 2025 – Nov 30, 202515.7%SuppressedDec 18, 2025
Nov 3, 2025 – Nov 16, 2025SuppressedSuppressedDec 4, 2025