ADOPTION FUNNEL // %
Piloting78%
PILOTING
↓ DROP 42%
Scoped to Prod45%
SCOPED TO PROD
↓ DROP 31%
Production31%
PRODUCTION
↓ DROP 61%
Material ROI12%
MATERIAL ROI
88% of agent pilots fail to graduate. Gartner: >40% of agentic AI projects will be cancelled by 2027.
TOP BLOCKERS // % CITING
Evaluation gaps64%
Governance friction57%
Reliability51%
Cost overruns42%
Identity / auth for agents38%
Data prep & lineage36%
MCP ADOPTION // GAUGE
ENT. TEAMS
SDK DL/MO
97M+
SERVERS
200+
GH STARS
81K+
CUSTOM SVR
41%
AGENT LEADERBOARD
Salesforce Agentforce
$1.4B combined ARR. 18,500 customers, 9,500 paid deals.
$1400M ARR
Sierra
$950M round at $15.8B.
$15.8B val
Decagon
AI-native CX agents.
$1.5B val
11x
Digital workers, GTM.
$350M val
Devin (Cognition)
Autonomous SWE agent.
$4.0B val
PROTOCOL STACK // EMERGING STANDARDS
- L1Anthropic MCPTool & context · 78% ent. teams; LF-donated
- L2Google A2AAgent-to-agent · Standardising hand-offs
- L3OpenAI ACPAgent comms · Workspace Agents launch
- L4AP2 (Agent Payments)Commerce · Visa-aligned
- L5Visa TAPTrusted Agent Pay · Settlement layer