AI use in Finnish companies in 2025: the numbers.

The headline figures.

• 38 % of Finnish companies with at least ten employees used AI technologies in spring 2025, up 14 percentage points from the year before (Statistics Finland, published 27 November 2025).
• Among Finnish companies with more than 100 employees, 68 % used AI.
• In Eurostat’s harmonised 2025 figures Finland stands at 37.82 %, second in the EU after Denmark (42.03 %) and ahead of Sweden (35.04 %). The EU average is 19.95 %.
• Finland’s year-on-year increase of 13.45 points was the second largest in the EU, behind Denmark’s 14.45.
• 79 % of Finnish companies with at least ten employees used paid cloud services in spring 2025, a level that has held near 80 % since 2022.

Adoption by sector in Finland.

The spread matters more than the average. A construction or logistics company that adopts a single working AI workflow in 2026 is still ahead of three quarters of its sector.

Adoption by company size.

Finland’s own statistics do not publish an adoption share for the smallest size class, but the documentation figures below show the same slope: the smaller the company, the less likely AI use is written down.

Which AI technologies companies use.

In Finland the most common technology analysed written text, used by 29 % of companies, followed by generating images, video or audio (22 %) and generating text, speech or code (20 %). Across the EU, text mining was used by 11.75 % of enterprises, image, video or audio generation by 9.55 % and natural language generation by 8.76 %. Speech recognition, machine learning, workflow automation and image recognition each sat between 3.78 % and 7.22 %, and autonomous movement of machines at 1.39 %.

What companies use AI for.

Among EU enterprises that use AI, 34.70 % use it for marketing or sales and 31.05 % for business administration or management. Logistics is the least common purpose at 6.08 %. The widest gap between small and large companies is in ICT security: 14.51 % of small AI users against 47.51 % of large ones.

The governance gap.

Only 15 % of Finnish companies had documented guidelines or practices for using AI software or systems in 2025, up four points in a year. By size: 51 % of companies with more than 100 employees, 25 % of those with 50–99, 15 % of those with 20–49 and 8 % of those with 10–19 employees.

Why companies hold back.

Across the EU, 14.21 % of non-users had considered AI. Among them the main barriers were lack of expertise (70.89 %), legal uncertainty (52.52 %) and data protection concerns (48.83 %). Two of the three are now easier to resolve: the EU AI Act’s main obligations apply from 2 August 2026, with high-risk rules for areas such as employment and critical infrastructure following on 2 December 2027, so a company can plan against known dates rather than open questions.

What this means for a company in Finland.

1. You are not late. 62 % of Finnish companies with at least ten employees had not adopted AI in spring 2025, and in most sectors three quarters had not.
2. The gap is expertise, not tools. Start with one workflow, a named owner and a baseline measure. Our guide on choosing a first AI automation project walks through that.
3. Write it down. A one-page documented practice puts you among the 15 %, and it is how the AI Act’s transparency and literacy duties are met in practice.
4. Keep a person on consequential decisions. Rules for predictable steps, AI for language and documents, human approval before anything is sent, paid or published.

Human02 builds that kind of first project for companies in Finland: a workflow review, a scoped pilot and a documented handover. See AI automation services or tell us where the work is getting stuck.