Agentic AI in Industry: Adoption Level and Deployment Barriers

Spyridon Alvanakis Apostolou, Jan Bosch, Helena Holmström Olsson

Abstract

Agentic AI systems are entering software engineering workflows, yet empirical evidence on how industrial organizations actually adopt them remains sparse. We present a qualitative interview study with sixteen practitioners across twelve companies of varying size and domain. This study characterizes the current agentic AI adoption state of these companies, employing a six-level maturity framework adapted from established AI-driven organizations. The findings reveal that seven companies operate at

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@article{llmsec202600164,
  title = {Agentic AI in Industry: Adoption Level and Deployment Barriers},
  author = {Spyridon Alvanakis Apostolou and Jan Bosch and Helena Holmström Olsson},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.14675},
}