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Notes from the deployment corpus, built around a specific finding and the evidence behind it.
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Build vs buy x time
71% of 2,399 classified enterprise AI deployments are custom-built. A time-series view shows how that lead has evolved as the product market has expanded.
Central finding
Custom engineering holds 71% of the classified corpus. The most autonomous workloads lean even further toward custom ownership.
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AI agents x industries
Agents are 41% of the 1,069 deployments documented in the last 12 months — this note maps the agent share of every measurable industry against the 2023-era baseline.
Central finding
In 4 industries, most newly documented AI deployments are already agentic. Consumer & Food shows the fastest statistically significant rise.
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AI agents x reported outcomes
A controlled look at 2,427 AI deployments published since 2024, comparing the outcomes reported by other AI, single-agent, and multi-agent systems.
Central finding
Agent cases report automation about twice as often as other AI cases. Multi-agent cases show the strongest speed and throughput signals.