Why Most Enterprise Agent Pilots Never Reach Deployment

Deloitte's 2026 technology trends research puts the pilot-to-production failure rate for AI agents at 89%. A Teradata survey adds the shape of that gap: 78% of enterprises have at least one agent pilot running, but only 14% have scaled one to organisation-wide use.

Why Most Enterprise Agent Pilots Never Reach Deployment

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Deloitte's 2026 technology trends research puts the pilot-to-production failure rate for AI agents at 89%.

A Teradata survey adds the shape of that gap: 78% of enterprises have at least one agent pilot running, but only 14% have scaled one to organisation-wide use.

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Deloitte's 2026 technology trends research puts the pilot-to-production failure rate for AI agents at 89%. A Teradata survey adds the shape of that gap: 78% of enterprises have at least one agent pilot running, but only 14% have scaled one to organisation-wide use.

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