Industrial Organizations Realize $29.4 Million in Net Present Value from the Cognite Industrial AI and Data Platform, with payback in <6 months
PHOENIX, Arizona — February 05, 2026 — Cognite, the global leader in Industrial AI, today announced the results of a Total Economic Impact™ (TEI) study commissioned by Forrester Consulting. Based on findings from current customers, the study reveals that organizations working with Cognite realize a 465% return on investment (ROI) and a net present value (NPV) of $29.4 million over three years.
As asset-intensive industries like chemicals, energy, manufacturing, and life sciences face pressure to improve operations with AI, production managers, engineers, and other front-line staff still struggle to realize valuable, real-time insights from siloed and inaccessible data. The Forrester study highlights how customers use Cognite’s platform to unify and contextualize information from IT, OT, and engineering systems, and enhance operations, maintenance, and reliability workflows with AI. By transforming raw data into actionable insights, Cognite enables advanced analytics and AI applications that increase production, minimize downtime, and increase workforce productivity.
Key Findings of the Forrester TEI Study Include:
- Rapid Payback and High ROI: Cognite customers experienced total risk-adjusted benefits of $35.7 million over three years, with the investment paying for itself in less than six months.
- Reduced Unplanned Downtime: By speeding up root cause analysis (RCA) by 60%, Cognite helped organizations identify and resolve issues before they escalated, resulting in $14.5 million in saved downtime value.
- Incremental Profit from Production Optimization: Improved visibility into real-time data allowed for a 1% to 2% increase in production throughput, leading to $10.7 million in incremental profit.
- Enhanced Onsite Staff Efficiency: Instant, remote access to contextualized data reduced time spent searching for information by 25%, allowing engineers and technicians to focus on problem-solving and saving the organization $10.5 million.
- Accelerated Digital Transformation: The study found that Cognite's AI agents reduced the time taken to digitalize and contextualize documents by 85%, moving from an average of 5 minutes to just 45 seconds per document.
“This new research demonstrates how innovative AI capabilities from Cognite are already unlocking significant value across a variety of industrial customers and use cases,” said Chirayu Shah, Chief Product Officer at Cognite. “It is rewarding to see how our investments in scalable data modeling, agentic AI, and new user experiences are already reducing the time to payback and value. Industrial AI has become an industrial necessity, and we are committed to delivering a long-term product roadmap that helps us deliver on our moonshot: $100B in customer value by 2035.”
The study is based on in-depth interviews with seven decision-makers at four global organizations with experience using Cognite. These findings were then aggregated into a composite organization generating $5 billion in annual revenue across 10 sites.
To download the full "Total Economic Impact™ of Cognite" study, visit: https://www.cognite.com/en/forrester-total-economic-impact
About Cognite
Cognite makes AI work for industry. Leading energy, manufacturing, and power & renewables enterprises choose Cognite to deliver secure, trustworthy, and real-time AI and data capabilities to transform their asset-heavy operations to be safer, more sustainable, and profitable. Cognite provides a user-friendly, secure, and scalable industrial AI & data platform that makes it easy for all decision-makers, from the field to remote operations centers, to access and understand complex industrial data, collaborate in real-time, and build a better tomorrow. Visit us at www.cognite.com, and follow us on LinkedIn and X.
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