The 2026 state of agentic integrations

Benchmark your agentic integration strategy against hundreds of companies

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Insights from hundreds of AI leaders on how they're integrating agents

Get an exclusive look at how companies build integrations for their agents, the software categories they’re prioritizing, and how their integration strategies will evolve in 2026.


Whether you’ve built dozens of agents or are just getting started, these insights will help you successfully build more connected agents.

Hundreds of product managers and engineers participated in the study

Respondents worked at U.S.-based companies with 50+ employees that have built or are actively building AI agents

We used a leading market
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79%

of the companies afraid of using MCP servers still plan to connect to them in the next 12 months

>50%

of companies will use MCP servers to connect to 7 software categories within 12 months


75%

of companies will rely on third-party hosted MCP servers

MCP is quickly becoming the standard for agentic integrations

MCP adoption will increase exponentially in 2026

73%

of companies will use MCP over the next 12 months

>60%

of companies will connect to MCP servers across software categories, including CRMs, business communications platforms, knowledge management systems, and file storage providers

MCP integrations aren’t DIY projects

75%

of companies will outsource their MCP integrations over the next 12 months

69%

of companies will outsource MCP integrations because implementing auth, error handling, and normalized data models requires significant technical expertise

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