11%Deloitte, 2025, 3,235 leaders
The pilot never reaches production.
Only 11% of companies have agents in production. The rest are exploring, piloting or waiting for approval.
Pilot in controlled production in 6 to 8 weeksReal users, limited volume, exit criteria defined before starting. If the number does not come, the pilot stops.
46%Anthropic, State of AI Agents, 2026
The agent does not talk to what already exists.
Integration with existing systems is the main obstacle. Legacy without APIs, scattered data, an ERP nobody wants to touch.
Connectors on top of the systems you haveMCP and APIs over ERP, CRM, core banking and legacy, without rewriting anything to fit the agent.
81%Dataiku and Harris Poll, 2026, 685 CIOs
Nobody knows how many agents are running.
81% of CIOs lost sight of agents created outside official channels. 84% say business teams build agents faster than IT can govern them.
Catalog with an owner, audit trail and a kill switchEvery agent has an owner, a cost limit, a record of every action and a point where a person decides.
76%Dataiku and Harris Poll, 2026
Nobody can prove the return.
76% do not measure ROI in a mature way. Only 21% see AI cost in real time by area or use case.
Baseline first, numbers afterMetrics agreed in the diagnostic, compared in the pilot, and token FinOps so cost never surprises.
68%EY Brazil, cited by consultancies, 2026
There are no people who know how to do it.
Lack of qualified professionals is the most cited barrier in Brazil, ahead of security and data privacy.
FireDev engineers as backstop and knowledge transferPilots built with a partner are twice as likely to reach production. In the end, your team runs it without us.