Market forecasts
Where analysts expect agent spending and deployment to land, and the failure rate to plan around.
$206.5B
AI agent software spending is forecast to hit $206.5 billion in 2026 and jump 82% to $376.3 billion in 2027.
40%
40% of enterprise applications will feature task-specific AI agents by the end of 2026, up from less than 5% at the start of the year.
$53B
Supply chain management software with agentic AI is forecast to grow from under $2 billion in 2025 to $53 billion in annual spend by 2030, with enterprise adoption rising from 5% to 60%.
40%
Over 40% of agentic AI projects will be canceled by the end of 2027, driven by escalating costs, unclear business value, and inadequate risk controls.
Enterprise adoption and results
What companies are actually deploying, what it earns, and how capable the agents have become.
17%
Only 17% of organisations have deployed AI agents to date, but more than 60% say they expect to within the next two years.
56%
Employee adoption of AI agents reached 56% of surveyed organisations in Q2 2026, up from 23% in Q1, across 2,145 senior business leaders in 20 countries.
18%
The share of organisations orchestrating multiple AI agents across workflows doubled from 9% to 18% in a single quarter.
$1.2B
Salesforce Agentforce reached $1.2 billion in annualized recurring revenue in Q1 FY2027, up 205% year over year.
4,000
More than 4,000 enterprise customers are actively using at least one Workday-built AI agent, a figure that doubled quarter over quarter, with AI annual recurring revenue approaching $500 million.
66.3%
AI agent success rates on the OSWorld computer-task benchmark jumped from roughly 12% in 2024 to 66.3% in 2026, approaching the human baseline of about 72%.
26%
Organisations that have genuinely deployed AI report a 26% productivity gain in software development, 14 to 15% improvement in customer support, and a 73% increase in marketing output.
94%
96% of organisations are already using AI agents in some capacity, yet 94% report that AI sprawl is increasing complexity, technical debt, and security risk.
12%
Only 12% of organisations have implemented a centralised platform to govern their AI agents.
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