Before a case exists, and after one closes
Companies with publicly disclosed AI adoption signals that have not become workforce cases, and the companies that made an AI-attributed cut and then walked it back. Confirmed cases live in the explorer.
The companies to monitor over the next 12 months
Companies with a public AI signal that does not yet meet the bar for the record: a deployment with no workforce decision, a cut the company attributes to something other than AI, a cut standing next to an AI programme it has never been linked to, or an executive signal with no action behind it. Every entry says what would promote it. Inclusion is not a prediction.
Quiet reversals
Companies that made AI-driven headcount cuts, then walked them back. Not every announcement holds. These are the verified cases where leadership publicly reversed course, apologized, or dropped the framing. The lesson each one leaves behind is what actually matters for HR planning.