Enterprise product teams are squarely in the throes of a massive shift. New Gartner research crystalized companies that have been using AI tools for product management are reaping a significant 35% productivity gain and achieving a two to three-year time-to-market advantage over those who wait.
In their recent report, "AI Vendor Race: AI Tools Elevate Productivity 35% by Upending Product Management Processes,"* Gartner carefully examined how progressive product teams in the enterprise are leveraging AI to accelerate development cycles and outpace competitors. Kong was included as a case study, alongside other forward-thinking companies such as Zapier and Leena.ai, for embracing AI-powered workflows.
For product teams, the long days of lengthy Product Requirements Documents (PRDs) and rigid documentation workflows are giving way to something faster and more dynamic. They’re now using AI to generate prototypes, validate concepts with virtual customers, and move from idea to working software in a fraction of the time.
In the case study, Kong SVP of Products Reza Shafii shared how our team uses a vibe-coding workflow in which AI-generated prompts feed directly into prototyping tools like Bolt. The prompts themselves become the product spec.
As the case study explains, AI tools let us run and iterate locally with minimal rework costs, enabling us to embrace a fail-fast mentality. If a concept doesn't work, we discard it and rebuild from scratch once it's validated. No heavy version control is needed.
Making these changes is all about removing friction for Kong’s product teams, letting us focus on shipping our products to customers faster.
This recognition is a milestone for us and it apparently reflects what we strongly believe in: you can't help customers succeed with AI if you're not embracing it yourself.
At Kong, we've never been content to wait. We're actively experimenting with AI across our product organization — across all pieces of our business; in fact, we’ve been leaning onto AI to move the needle faster, iterate quicker, and cast off the friction that weighs teams down.
Kong's platform empowers organizations manage both traditional API traffic and the surging demands of AI workloads. But we're not merely building AI-ready infrastructure for our customers. We're living it to the fullest internally. Every team at Kong uses AI to accelerate how we build, test, and ship products.
This alignment is critical, especially when selecting a vendor. When you work with Kong, you're not just buying a product — you're partnering with a company that's moving at the same pace.
Ready to move faster? See how Kong can help.
* All citations and statistics from “AI Vendor Race: AI Tools Elevate Productivity 35% by Upending Product Management Processes Gartner Research, 12 March 2026.
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