--- title: From AI Experiments to 90% Adoption: How Cisco... description: Cisco shares how it achieved 90% employee AI adoption across 100,000+ users by focusing on three pillars: trusted enterprise data, a secure internal platform... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/from-ai-experiments-to-90-adoption-how-cisco-operationalized-ai-at-scale-yjzp29sg4 twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: From AI Experiments to 90% Adoption: How Cisco Operationalized AI at Scale | daily.dev og:description: Cisco shares how it achieved 90% employee AI adoption across 100,000+ users by focusing on three pillars: trusted enterprise data, a secure internal platform... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/from-ai-experiments-to-90-adoption-how-cisco-operationalized-ai-at-scale-yjzp29sg4 og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/YJZP29Sg4.png og:image:alt: From AI Experiments to 90% Adoption: How Cisco Operationalized AI at Scale og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # From AI Experiments to 90% Adoption: How Cisco Operationalized AI at Scale **[Cisco](https://daily.dev/sources/cisco)** · 5 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary Cisco shares how it achieved 90% employee AI adoption across 100,000+ users by focusing on three pillars: trusted enterprise data, a secure internal platform called Circuit, and AI-native workflow redesign. Rather than banning consumer AI tools, Cisco built a governed multi-model platform that employees actually wanted to use. Over 21,000 engineers now use AI coding tools weekly, saving an average of six hours per week. The post argues that operational excellence — not first-mover advantage — determines which organizations extract lasting value from AI. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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