Agentic AI hype races ahead as enterprises remain stuck in pilot mode

Three-quarters of enterprise leaders say they're adopting agentic AI, but only a small minority have managed to move beyond pilots and into meaningful production deployments, according to Forrester. That won't stop vendors from slapping "agentic" onto every product brochure they can find, but the analyst's assessment is that most organizations remain stuck somewhere between experimentation and actual business value. Agentic AI has reached an important milestone in 2026, says Forrester: "long-hor