32%About 1 in 3of respondents say their organization decided against buying software because it could be built in-house with agentic coding tools (McKinsey 2026)
32% of respondents say their organization decided against buying software because it could be built in-house with agentic coding tools (McKinsey 2026) (May-Jun 2026, McKinsey & Company, The State of AI (McKinsey Global Survey))
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32% of respondents say their organization decided against buying software because it could be built in-house with agentic coding tools (McKinsey 2026) (May-Jun 2026).
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the latest figure (May-Jun 2026)
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type of source
Why you can trust it. McKinsey & Company, The State of AI (McKinsey Global Survey): survey, sampled survey with a published method. 1,719 online respondents in 97 nations, 4 May to 8 Jun 2026; large = more than $1 billion annual revenue (36% of respondents).
McKinsey & Company, The State of AI (McKinsey Global Survey)
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Survey: Sampled survey with a published method
What it measures
32% of respondents say their organization decided against buying software because it could be built in-house with agentic coding tools (McKinsey 2026)
Data period
May-Jun 2026 (ends 8 Jun 2026)
Published by the source
25 Aug 2026
Who is counted
1,719 online respondents in 97 nations, 4 May to 8 Jun 2026; large = more than $1 billion annual revenue (36% of respondents).
In the source's words
Nearly a third of respondents (32 percent) report that their organizations have decided against buying one or more software products or features because they could be built internally with agentic coding tools.
Checked at source
23 Oct 2026: Read on mckinsey.com, 2026-10-23.
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McKinsey & Company. (2026). 32% of respondents say their organization decided against buying software because it could be built in-house with agentic coding tools (McKinsey 2026). Via digitaltreed, https://digitaltreed.com/statistics/ai-agents/orgs-skipped-software-purchase-coding-agents
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"32% of respondents say their organization decided against buying software because it could be built in-house with agentic coding tools (McKinsey 2026)." McKinsey & Company, The State of AI (McKinsey Global Survey), May-Jun 2026. digitaltreed, https://digitaltreed.com/statistics/ai-agents/orgs-skipped-software-purchase-coding-agents.
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32% of respondents say their organization decided against buying software because it could be built in-house with agentic coding tools (McKinsey 2026), for May-Jun 2026, according to McKinsey & Company, The State of AI (McKinsey Global Survey). We checked it at the source on 23 Oct 2026.
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