Eighty percent of respondents report at least one AI agent running in production, and 29 percent report more than twenty (base 75). The modal answer is one to five agents. Twelve percent report no production agents and 8 percent are not sure, so running at least one agent is now the common state, not the exception.
The figure comes from Open Future Forum's October 2026 AI Leaders AI Leverage Report, a selective operator sample rather than a probability sample. The upper tail matters as much as the headline: 22 of 75 respondents report running more than twenty production agents, which makes fleet-level governance, not just individual-agent review, a live operating question for a meaningful minority of organizations.
| Production agent count | Count | Share |
|---|---|---|
| None | 9 | 12% |
| 1 to 5 | 27 | 36% |
| 6 to 20 | 11 | 15% |
| More than 20 | 22 | 29% |
| Not sure | 6 | 8% |
What this does not prove: the survey counts how many agents respondents say are running in production; it does not independently verify uptime, autonomy, reliability, or whether every reported agent is material to the business.
Full data, bases, and methodology: AI Leaders AI Leverage Report, October 2026 and Executive AI Statistics, October 2026.
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