Gartner: more than 40% of agentic-AI projects will be cancelled by 2027
Costs, unclear value, weak risk controls — and roughly 130 real vendors among thousands claiming 'agentic'.
Costs, unclear value, weak risk controls — and roughly 130 real vendors among thousands claiming 'agentic'.
Gartner's forecast is the sharpest number in enterprise AI this quarter: over 40% of agentic-AI projects cancelled by end-2027. The same research counts only around 130 vendors with substantive agentic capability, and coins the quarter's phrase — agent washing.
Set it next to Forrester/Anaconda's 88% pilot-to-production failure rate and BCG/Forrester's finding that 22% of programs show negative twelve-month ROI, and the story is consistent: the model is rarely the problem. Scoping and evaluation are. See the full read: The Org Chart Is Being Rewritten.