After replacing roughly 80% of staff who resisted an AI-native transformation with people who bought in, Ignitech's anonymous internal survey showed extremely high morale: employee NPS of +78 (versus a tech-industry top quartile of ~60), 90% saying they'd rejoin with 0% saying no, and 89% reporting they'd advanced at least one AI fluency level.
Eric Vaughn shares survey data from Ignitech's year-long AI-native restructuring—which involved replacing about 80% of the workforce—showing very high resulting morale: +78 employee NPS, 90% would rejoin, and 89% report gains in AI fluency. ✦ AI generated
Eric Vaughn · The Cognitive Revolution · 2026-06-26 · original ↗
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E E NPS employee NPS of plus 78. Tech industry top cortile is around 60. 90% said they'd make the same decision to join again without hesitation. 0% said no... 89% report that they moved up at least one AI fluency level since joining.
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72:12plus 78. Tech industry top cortile is around 60. 90% said they'd make the same decision to join again without hesitation. 0% said no. This was the one that mattered the most to me. 89% report that they moved up at least one AI fluency level since joining. Now, why is that important? Because it's not because of the work that they're just doing for our company, but they all believe that
72:39they're being enriched with a very valuable skill for the future, which is true, right? So, uh, you know, we're able to do things differently. And Nathan, that was, you know, to zero back to your question, the ability to deliver more to customers in a shorter time frame, uh, is just changed the game of software development dramatically. We all know that, right? Cloud code, whatever we're using to do that, cursor,
73:05whatever we're using to do that, we're cranking out real code at an enterprise quality level like never before. Um, I wanted to ask you because I think you're one of the first CEOs we've had, AI native CEOs that has done a recent acquisition and I wanted to ask you about the chorus acquisition. Um, and how as an AI native CEO you approached it which would have been different from
73:31an M&A integration that you've done in the past. Um, what were the, you know, was it easier to integrate? Was it um you know what were the main hurdles? Um do you think now that you have AI it's become it's going to become a a thing to uh acquire and integrate more of these companies because we've seen some uh private equity shops trying to set up firms that you know acquire uh legacy
73:58software businesses and transform them with AI. So how does that how did that play out in this acquisition which is I think about a year old now. Yeah. So, Ignitech is an acquisition company. It's what we've it's it's what we do. It's what we we've I think completed over 150 acquisitions in the last 12 years. Uh large and small, lots of different, you know, uh parameters, but always in the