Overview

• 62% of enterprises are piloting AI agents under human supervision with 46% testing fully autonomous systems
• Gartner predicts more than 40% of agentic AI projects will be canceled by the end of 2027 due to rising costs, vague ROI and immature governance frameworks
• Most current initiatives remain early-stage experiments driven by hype and often misapplied, slowing deployments and eroding stakeholder confidence
• Only about 130 of thousands of so-called agentic AI providers meet the true definition of autonomous agency, creating market confusion
• By 2028, Gartner forecasts AI agents will autonomously handle 15% of routine business decisions and appear in a third of enterprise software applications