Auditing the agent economy: what the forecasts actually say
THE SO WHAT
Two major firms both land near ~46% CAGR for agentic AI through 2030, but with a 2x spread on market size—translation: everyone agrees on direction, nobody agrees on magnitude. Treat these numbers as justification for small, focused bets on agents in your stack, not as a basis for wholesale roadmap rewrites.
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