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88% -- ai agent budget increase intent rate for organizations (2025)
88% of organizations plan to increase AI agent budgets in the next 12 months according to PwC (2025).
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https://www.arkeoai.com/ai-in-business/best-custom-ai-agents ↗
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Best Custom AI Agents for Mid-Market | Arkeo AI
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Last updated: June 2026
If you run a $10M to $200M business and your team is evaluating custom AI agents instead of off-the-shelf copilots, the question is no longer whether to build, it is which custom agent counts as best for an operator who needs to keep data inside the building and ROI …
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organizations: 88% ai agent budget increase intent rate. Source: PwC (2025). Via Lighthouse Intelligence -- https://lighthousedata.io/data/organizations-increase-agent-budgets-2025
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