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74% -- share of companies expecting to use ai agents for companies (2026)
74% of companies expect to be using AI agents by 2027 according to Deloitte's State of AI in the Enterprise 2026 report.
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2026
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https://deadsimple.email/blog/every-agent-needs-an-inbox-dead-simple-email-gives-them-one.html ↗
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There are about 8 billion people on Earth, and the population of AI agents is on a curve that will pass that number. Gartner projects that 40% of enterprise applications will ship with task-specific AI agents by the end of 2026, up from under 5% in 2025. Each of those agents signs up for services, c…
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companies: 74% share of companies expecting to use ai agents. Source: Deloitte (2026). Via Lighthouse Intelligence -- https://lighthousedata.io/data/companies-expecting-ai-agent-use-2027
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