AI Agents Finally Reached Production in 2026 — and 40% Won't Survive. Here's What Separates the Ones That Do.
Agents moved from demo to production across the economy this spring. Gartner predicts more than 40% of agentic AI projects will be cancelled by 2027 — not because the models fail, but because the organisation around them does. Here's what the surviving deployments do differently, and why the frontier labs just came downmarket to make sure small businesses aren't the ones left behind.