Gallup’s 2026 State of the Global Workplace report landed this month. Two numbers: 20% of employees globally are engaged — a 5-year low. Disengagement costs $10 trillion annually, roughly 9% of global GDP.
Meanwhile, $40B in enterprise AI investment has moved corporate profits by zero in 95% of organizations (MIT, 2025). 89% of executives report no effect of AI on labor productivity (NBER, 2026).
The technology works. The rollouts don’t. The missing layer: real-time visibility into whether people are actually engaged with the work, the meeting, the training.
The Engagement Crisis — By the Numbers
Engagement — a $10T/year variable — is the only metric in a modern business still measured annually with a questionnaire. Revenue is daily. Pipeline is hourly. Latency is per-second. Engagement is… once a year, on a form.
You cannot improve what you cannot see in real time.
The Engagement & AI Teammate from Augment Me uses over 100 modalities through any standard camera to measure cognitive engagement in real time. Attention patterns, cognitive load, physiological signals, micro-behavioral cues — all privacy-preserving, no wearables, no special hardware.
The AI doesn’t just measure. It adapts — surfacing engagement shifts live so presenters, teachers, and managers can respond in the moment, not after the quarterly survey.
Live with Promethean (NYSE: MYND) in 2M+ classrooms across 126 countries. Two-year Title I study: students surpassed national benchmarks by 100-400+ points. We run it on our own team meetings — engagement drops at minute 22, we see it and adapt.
Expanding to 1M+ additional conference rooms and classrooms in May. Joining an FDA program for AI-derived physiological metrics the same month.
Market Opportunity — 2026 to 2035
The companies that deliver real-time engagement intelligence — not surveys, not emotion labels — will own the next cycle.
Building products for classrooms, conference rooms, or training environments? Let’s talk engagement intelligence. info@augment-me.com
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