The State of Agentic AI in Enterprise (2025)
A comprehensive survey of 500+ enterprise leaders on AI agent adoption, maturity levels, deployment barriers, and measured ROI benchmarks across marketing, operations, and customer experience.
Key Insights
- 73% of enterprises plan to deploy agentic AI within 12 months
- Average ROI of 4.2× reported by organisations with mature agent deployments
- Orchestration and governance are the top barriers to scale
- Marketing and customer support lead in agent adoption
What's inside
The adoption landscape
Where enterprises are today and where they're heading in the next 18 months.
Maturity model
A five-stage framework for assessing your organisation's agentic AI readiness.
ROI benchmarks by function
Measured outcomes across marketing, support, ops, and finance.
Deployment barriers
The top technical, organisational, and governance blockers — and how leaders overcome them.
The path to production
What separates POC from production: architecture decisions that matter.
The State of Agentic AI
April 2025 · 25 min read