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The 2026 market report

The agentic economy, mapped.

Agentic Economy maps the companies, infrastructure, commercial systems and institutions forming around delegated software work.

2026 global infrastructure edition

The Agentic Economy market report

Sixteen connected briefings on the market, agent infrastructure, exchange and commerce. Read the overview or enter at any chapter.

Earth's curved horizon seen from above, representing a wide view of the agentic economy

Full report · Parts I–III

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Agentic Economy

Agentic Economy's map of delegated software work, global agent infrastructure and the commercial categories forming around it.

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Part I

The market

  1. 01What is the agentic economy?When software does the work
  2. 02AI agent adoption: demand, evidence and the measurement problemDemand and adoption
  3. 03The agentic economy market mapThe whole-market map

Part II

Agent systems and infrastructure

  1. 04AI models and inference infrastructure for agentsModels and compute
  2. 05AI agent context, memory and data infrastructureContext and memory
  3. 06Agent runtimes, orchestration and harnessesRuntimes and orchestration
  4. 07Tools, browsers and service access in the agentic economyTools and service access
  5. 08Agent-to-agent coordination for AI systemsAgent coordination
  6. 09Identity, authority and policy for AI agentsIdentity and authority
  7. 10Evaluation, observability and security for AI agentsEvaluation and security

Part III

Exchange and commerce

  1. 11AI agent discovery, marketplaces and offersDiscovery and offers
  2. 12What agentic commerce protocols cover from offer to checkoutProtocols and checkout
  3. 13How AI agents pay: credentials, payment rails and settlementPayments and settlement
  4. 14How agentic commerce works in enterprise relationshipsEnterprise relationships
  5. 15AI agent services, business models and pricingServices and business models