Forrester research reveals that while 75% of enterprise leaders are adopting agentic AI, only a small fraction have deployed it meaningfully beyond chatbot applications, with scaled multiagent systems remaining exceptionally rare. The primary obstacles include ROI uncertainty, governance gaps, platform confusion, and significant trust and risk management concerns around autonomous system oversight. Analysts recommend investing in orchestration infrastructure before adding agents, redesigning workflows around autonomy, and treating every agent as a governed identity with unique credentials and logging.
