B
Evidence Grade B
Graded
accuracy verified by the review judge
Safe to Cite
Recent
88%
88% -- planned ai agent budget increase rate for organizations (2025)
88% of organizations plan to increase AI agent budgets in the next 12 months.
Attribution:
View source
Lighthouse Research Team
Last verified:
·
How we verify data →
Source verified
Evidence graded
Value
88%
Unit
Percentage
Data Vintage
2025
Entity
Geography
Global
Evidence Quality
B
Strong, reliable evidence
Sourced from a well-regarded research firm or industry leader with transparent methodology and a reasonably large sample.
Single source - not yet corroborated
Score breakdown
Extraction
75
Source Trust
60
Citation Chain
20
Independence
30
Methodology
45
Freshness
95
Source
PwC
Primary
Tier B
https://www.arkeoai.com/ai-in-business/building-custom-ai-agents ↗
Source Article
Building Custom AI Agents: The Build Path | Arkeo AI
Category
Last updated: June 2026
If you run a $10M to $200M company and your team is moving from off-the-shelf copilots to a first custom AI agent build, the question is no longer whether to build, it is how to ship the first one inside a quarter without funding a 12-month custom-software project. T…
Original Research
PwC
· Original study ↗
Methodology
Cited from PwC 2025 research
Methodology documented
Segmentation
IndustryAI/ML
RegionGlobal
RoleAll marketers
Cite this stat
Plain Text
organizations: 88% planned ai agent budget increase rate. Source: PwC (2025). Via Lighthouse Intelligence -- https://lighthousedata.io/data/organizations-increase-agent-budgets-pwc
HTML Embed
<blockquote cite="https://lighthousedata.io/data/organizations-increase-agent-budgets-pwc" style="border-left:3px solid #2563eb;padding:12px 16px;margin:16px 0;font-family:system-ui,sans-serif;background:#f0f4ff;"><strong>88%</strong> -- planned ai agent budget increase rate for organizations<br><small>Source: PwC (2025) · <a href="https://lighthousedata.io/data/organizations-increase-agent-budgets-pwc" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Lighthouse Intelligence</a></small></blockquote>
Share
Use this data in your work
Copy the citation, embed the widget, or explore thousands more verified marketing statistics -- all free.