Everybody knew

"93% of execs say agentic AI is essential."
"Only 2% have scaled it."
"Trust in autonomous agents dropped 37% in a year."

They’re launching tech they don’t believe in—just to keep the board calm.

Capgemini interviewed 1,500 executives across 14 countries.
The forecasts are gospel:
"$382M upside over three years for scaled agent adoption."
"$450B in unlocked global value by 2028."

But only 2% of firms have done it.
Less than 25% have even launched a pilot.
And trust fell off a cliff—from 43% to 27% in 12 months.

Still, they greenlit the rollouts.

Zapier deployed over 800 Claude agents last year.
No performance data.
No measured ROI.
Just a slide saying "adoption complete."

Anthropic is courting a $100B valuation.
But there’s no exit.
No return.
Just ambient fear and 10X infra bills.

The agent flagged a false risk alert.
The customer got locked out.
The intern was fired.

They called it "transformation."
It was just automation—without brakes.

Nobody paused.
Because pausing means you admit
you don't control the system anymore.

The decks passed.
The truth didn’t.

They forgot the human in the loop
should still be breathing.