AI Agents & Agent Infrastructure
Agent budgets are large but governance lags: large US enterprises planned a weighted average $202 million of AI investment for the next year, yet only 30% build monitoring and evaluation controls into their agents (KPMG, 2026). In the EU, 5.35% of enterprises use workflow-automating AI (Eurostat).
20 verified facts tracked for this market — each with its source, reporting period and evidence tier. Tier 1 = primary institutions (central banks, statistical offices); tier 2 = disclosed industry panels.
| Metric | Value | Geo | Period | Tier | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ES, 10-49 employees: enterprises whose AI is ready-to-use commercial software | 7.92percent | ES | 2025 | T1 | ec.europa.eu |
| EU27, 10-49 employees: enterprises using AI that automates workflows or assists decision-making (software RPA) | 4.13percent | EU27 | 2025 | T1 | ec.europa.eu |
| EU27, 10+ employees: enterprises using AI that automates workflows or assists decision-making (software RPA) | 5.35percent | EU27 | 2025 | T1 | ec.europa.eu |
| ES, 10-49 employees: enterprises whose AI was developed by own employees | 2.36percent | ES | 2025 | T1 | ec.europa.eu |
| Organizations building controls into their AI agents with monitoring and evaluation | 30percent of organizations | US | 2026-Q3 | T2 | kpmg.com |
| Leaders citing faster decision-making as realized AI value | 49percent of leaders | US | 2026-Q3 | T2 | kpmg.com |
| Leaders with high-risk use cases where AI agents may not decide autonomously | 49percent of leaders | US | 2026-Q3 | T2 | kpmg.com |
| Leaders citing productivity gains as realized AI benefit | 55percent of leaders | US | 2026-Q3 | T2 | kpmg.com |
| Large US enterprises reporting significant workforce adoption of AI | 44percent of organizations | US | 2026-Q3 | T2 | kpmg.com |
| Organizations with full real-time visibility into AI operating costs | 26percent of organizations | US | 2026-Q2 | T2 | kpmg.com |
| Leaders citing insufficient training or support as an AI adoption concern | 27percent of leaders | US | 2026-Q2 | T2 | kpmg.com |
| Weighted average AI investment planned by large US enterprises over next 12 months | 202USD million | US | 2026-Q2 | T2 | kpmg.com |
| Employee resistance to AI driven by trust and ethical considerations | 53percent of leaders citing | US | 2026-Q2 | T2 | kpmg.com |
| Gross annualized revenue of Mercor, expert-data and evaluation supplier to AI labs | 2USD billion | US | 2026-06 | T2 | dealroom.co |
| Daily payout to expert contractors by Mercor | 2USD million per day | US | 2026 | T2 | dealroom.co |
| Share of topline revenue paid out to contractors by Mercor (expert-data marketplace) | 60-70percent of topline revenue | US | 2026 | T2 | dealroom.co |
| Weekly active expert contractors supplying AI training and evaluation data via Mercor | 30000weekly active contractors | US | 2026 | T2 | dealroom.co |
| Total funding raised to date by Scale AI across all rounds | 1.6USD billion | US | 2026 | T3 | sacra.com |
| Scale AI list price per image annotation | 6US cents per annotation | US | 2026 | T3 | sacra.com |
| Gross margin of Scale AI on per-task labour markup | 50percent gross margin | US | 2026 | T3 | sacra.com |
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