GoKawiilDeloitte survey: only 15% of firms have scaled multi-agent AI deployments
Deloitte surveyed 501 senior business leaders driving AI strategy and found most companies remain stuck testing or expanding AI agents rather than running them at scale. Just 15% have achieved orchestrated multi-agent deployments across functions like customer service, IT and engineering, while 42% are still testing small numbers of agents and 43% are expanding pilots.
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The findings suggest that despite heavy investment and hype around agentic AI, most organizations lack the data infrastructure, governance, and integration capabilities needed to move beyond pilots. With nearly two-thirds of leaders rethinking their business models, the gap between ambition and execution could determine which companies capture AI's productivity gains first.
- Only 15% of surveyed organizations have scaled multi-agent AI orchestration across functions
- 72% cite lack of unified data foundations and 70% cite trust/governance as top barriers
- Nearly two-thirds of leaders are reevaluating business models due to agentic AI advances
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