Raising the quality of insights in agentic analytics

An MIT Technology Review Insights report finds that on average only 48% of insights generated by analytics agents at surveyed companies lead to actions that improve the business, up from 37% a year earlier, with a small group of "insight leaders" exceeding 70%. Respondents cite lack of business context (55%) and fragmented or inaccessible data (45%) as the main causes of substandard insights, and 52% of organizations say agents generate too many insights to evaluate properly. Companies are prioritizing stronger AI and data governance (60%) and adding a semantic layer to their data architecture (45%).