I now have the majority of Fortune 1000 profiled as part of API Evangelist, so I want to continue understanding where they are with AI. Similar to what I am doing with Naftiko Signals, I want to understand the AI language being used by the Fortun 100. This week I ran an experiment to make that claim concrete. For each of the 989 Fortune 1000 companies that I already have a repo for in the API Evangelist GitHub Organization, I pulled three things and stored them as markdown right next to the existing apis.yml: The top five Google results for “<company> artificial intelligence”. The top five results for “<company>” press release artificial intelligence. The top five results for “<company>” blog artificial intelligence. Every artifact lands as a markdown file with YAML frontmatter (title, url, date, query, position, source). Then a second pass walks each company directory, counts mentions across a 35-term lexicon — artificial intelligence, AI, machine learning, LLM, generative ai, foundation model, copilot, agentic, RAG, GPT-x, OpenAI, Anthropic, ChatGPT, and a couple dozen more — and writes a per-company AI-INVESTMENT.md report. A final pass aggregates everything into a single rollup. The numbers 989 Fortune 1000 companies have a repo and a full report. 44,025 AI-term mentions across all the pulled markdown. 19,609 of those are the exact string artificial intelligence. 44.5 AI-term mentions per company on average. 0 companies with zero AI signal across all pulled markdown. That last number is the headline. Even the Fortune 1000 companies you wouldn’t expect — Universal (the tobacco company at rank #854), Pep Boys at #850, Pinnacle Entertainment at #976 — produced at least one Google result mentioning AI somewhere in the snippet. The question of “is your industry talking about AI yet” is closed. Yes. All talking about it. The question is, what are they doing about it, and that reflects the work I am doing with Naftiko Signals. Three lenses, three different leaderboards The first lens is raw mention count. It looks like this: Rank Company F1000 AI total artificial intelligence 1 American Express #88 327 20 2 Hanover Insurance Group #511 321 34 3 Teradata #809 217 20 4 Juniper Networks #557 166 16 5 Apache #218 161 16 6 Autodesk #862 119 21 7 Cisco Systems #60 115 31 8 Netflix #474 114 18 9 Leidos Holdings #506 113 32 10 Citrix Systems #725 109 18 If you stop reading after this table you will draw the wrong conclusions. American Express and Hanover Insurance lead because they happened not to expose an RSS feed on their corporate homepage. That means their data is entirely the 15 search engine snippets I asked for — and those snippets are 100% AI-themed by query design. Microsoft, sitting at #31 in the same ranking with 90 mentions, did expose a feed. So Microsoft also has twenty broad blog posts in the sample, most of them not about AI, which drags the raw mention count down. This is sample-size bias, not signal. To…