89% of AI Agent Pilots Never Reach Production
New data from Deloitte, HCLTech, and Nasuni shows the AI agent production gap widened to 89%. Enterprises are now actively rolling back deployed agents.
AI & Agentic AI
Open-Weight Models Caught Up. Adoption Fell to 11%
Open-weight models matched proprietary ones on code, but enterprise open-source share fell from 19% to 11%. Why the real decision is not open versus closed but a governed selection problem, and the four-gate framework for licensing, cost, and provenance.
AI Agents in Production Succeed 56.6% of the Time
The 2026 agent numbers look contradictory: 46% of POCs reach production, 14% scale, 5% show P&L impact, and telemetry says deployed agents succeed 56.6% of tasks. They measure four different gates of one funnel. Here is the reconciliation and the habits of the minority that scales.