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Product Launchcurated sourcedetected 2026-05-27 · confidence 75%

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Gartner: Product Launch

Gartner forecast indicates massive enterprise adoption of task-specific AI agents across applications, accelerating from <5% in 2025 to 40% by end of 2026.

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The leadership read

Product momentum tends to widen consulting product and commercial leadership bench strength.

Market context: The wider read — a Talent Market Index of 111.1 (Hot), up 5.2 month-on-month — shows EMEA signal flow easing (-4.4pts).

Gartner: 1 signal in the last 90 days — in line with the Consulting median of 1 across 45 tracked companies; 0.1% of MitchelLake's EMEA signal flow.

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