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    "statement": "of respondents at large organizations ($1B+ revenue) say they are scaling AI agents, up from 27% a year earlier; smaller organizations stayed at 22%",
    "value_display": "40%",
    "value_numeric": 40,
    "unit": "%",
    "data_label": "May-Jun 2026",
    "data_period_end": "2026-06-08",
    "region": "Global",
    "size": "large",
    "source": {
        "name": "The State of AI (McKinsey Global Survey)",
        "publisher": "McKinsey & Company",
        "type": "survey",
        "url": "https://www.mckinsey.com/"
    },
    "source_url": "https://www.mckinsey.com/capabilities/quantumblack/our-insights/the-state-of-ai",
    "source_quote": "Forty percent of respondents from large organizations (those with annual revenues of more than $1 billion) report scaling AI agents, up from 27 percent last year.",
    "verification_note": "Read on mckinsey.com (\"The state of AI in 2026: On the road to ROI\", 25 Aug 2026) on 2026-10-23 (page text loaded in a browser; the site blocks plain downloads). Same paragraph: \"The share of respondents from smaller organizations reporting scaling remained flat at 22 percent.\"",
    "verified_at": "2026-10-23T00:00:00+00:00",
    "margin_of_error": null,
    "dont_know": null,
    "data_table": {
        "columns": [
            "McKinsey State of AI",
            "Large ($1B+)",
            "Smaller",
            "All respondents"
        ],
        "rows": [
            [
                "Scaling AI agents, 2026",
                "40%",
                "22%",
                "About 2 in 10"
            ],
            [
                "Scaling AI agents, 2025",
                "27%",
                "-",
                "23% (agentic AI system)"
            ],
            [
                "Scaling software coding agents, 2026",
                "31%",
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                "About 2 in 10"
            ],
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                "At least experimenting with agents, 2025",
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        ]
    },
    "revisions": [
        {
            "happened_on": "2026-10-23",
            "kind": "correction",
            "value_display": null,
            "note": "Wording corrected to match the source: the $234B forecast is an upper limit ('up to')"
        },
        {
            "happened_on": "2026-08-25",
            "kind": "new_data",
            "value_display": "40%",
            "note": "2026 survey."
        },
        {
            "happened_on": "2025-11-05",
            "kind": "new_data",
            "value_display": "27%",
            "note": "Large organizations scaling AI agents in the 2025 survey, as restated in the 2026 report."
        }
    ],
    "page_url": "https://digitaltreed.com/statistics/ai-agents/large-orgs-scaling-ai-agents",
    "csv_url": "https://digitaltreed.com/statistics/ai-agents/large-orgs-scaling-ai-agents.csv"
}