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Enterprises set to abandon 70% of vendor-built agentic AI by 2028, Gartner predicts
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Fusion42 · 3 October 2026 · Fusion42 review
Gartner forecasts that by 2028, 70% of enterprises will abandon vendor-built agentic AI solutions mainly due to high costs and dependence on external engineers under the forward-deployed engineering (FDE) model. They caution that FDE often leaves organisations without internal capabilities, drives up operational expenses, and rarely results in broader vendor product improvements.
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Your AI projects risk becoming costly dependencies on outside engineers rather than scalable products. Push to build internal teams that maintain and evolve agentic AI or you’ll bleed budget—and lose control of your AI’s future.
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