AvePoint Research Reveals AI Visibility Gaps Have Nearly Tripled as AI Agents Scale and Almost Half of Enterprise Employees Now Rely on Agents Daily or Weekly
AvePoint released its third annual State of AI Report, conducted in partnership with Osterman Research, surveying 750 enterprise leaders. The report reveals that visibility into unsanctioned AI tool usage has nearly tripled from 6.3% in 2025 to 17.6% in 2026, with 21.1% of organizations unable to track unsanctioned AI agent activity.
Key figures
- Customer count
- 28,000
- Survey respondents
- 750
- Average delay months
- 6
- Unsanctioned agent visibility gap
- 21.1%
- Unsanctioned ai visibility gap 2025
- 6.3%
- Unsanctioned ai visibility gap 2026
- 17.6%
- Enterprise data ai generated current
- 35.5%
- Organizations managing 1pb plus data
- 84.1%
- Organizations delaying ai deployments
- 86.9%
- Employees relying on agents daily weekly
- 46.9%
- Enterprise data ai generated 12m forecast
- 42.1%
- Organizations with agent security incidents
- 88.4%
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