Agents @ Work

An indicative snapshot of what AI agents do across the apps they use.

Updated Oct 14, 2026

Where agents work, by category

Agent actions by week

Agent Actions (Weekly)

Apps agents use together

Top apps agents work in, and the pairs that keep turning up in the same job

Which app categories agents are moving into

Fastest-growing categories this week, and the biggest by volume

Fastest growing

Marketing↑ 70%+
Finance & Accounting↑ 30–40%
AI & Agents↑ 30–40%
Developer Tools↑ 30–40%
Media & Design↑ <30%
Social↑ <30%
Productivity↑ <30%

Biggest (by volume)

Communication40%+
Productivity15–30%
Social10–15%
Sales & CRM5–10%
Developer Tools<5%
Project Management<5%
Marketing<5%

Reads per write by job

1 write1 read
1 write10 read
1 write100 read
Support1 : 1.8
Docs & files1 : 5.0
Code & issues1 : 6.0
Commerce & finance1 : 7.0
CRM & deals1 : 21
Tasks1 : 22
Email1 : 44
Chat1 : 65
Social1 : 85
Calendars1 : 108

What agents do with data

Reads versus creates, updates and deletes - the action mix over the last 7 days

93%Read
Read93%
Create1.8%
Update5.0%
Delete0.2%

How often agents repeat work they've seen

68%Seen before
Seen before68%
Partially seen11%
Not seen before21%

How hard is agent work?

Hard
82%Multi-step work with cross-app dependencies, pagination, edge cases or error recovery.
Medium
18%A moderate sequence of several connected steps.
Easy
0.3%One straightforward action with a single tool.

Share of calls with a reported framework

Successful call share among the five named frameworks

1.OpenAI SDK / Agents70%+
2.Vercel AI SDK2–5%
3.LangChain / LangGraph1–2%
4.Anthropic SDK<1%
5.Claude Agent SDK<1%

What new users start with

Which AI clients new users start with each week

Claude.aiChatGPT / OpenAIBuilt by developersCursorClaude CodeCodexOther AI clients

Which apps are taking off this week

The apps agents picked up fastest this week

Re:amaze
Customer Support
+2784%
1
HighLevel
Marketing
+1106%
2
Deepgram
AI & Agents
+672%
3
4.Braze+539%
5.OpenRouter+525%
6.Just One API+381%
7.Odoo+362%
8.Postman+321%
9.Twenty CRM+286%
10.API-Sports+258%
11.Hyperbrowser+251%
12.Hookdeck+222%

What triggers an agent run

The events kicking off agent runs - a new email, a form, a webhook

SlackGmailGoogle DriveGoogle CalendarOutlookSalesforceOther

20M+ trigger events last week, around the clock.

Agent actions by hour

Agent actions by hour of day (UTC)

Where agents hit rate limits

How often each app throttles the calls agents send it

CompanyCam50%+
Unipile20–40%
Hookdeck20–40%
Slack15–20%
FireCrawl<15%
Workiz<15%
Polygon.io<15%
TimelinesAI<15%

How these numbers are measured

What is measured

Real agent actions running through Composio. One action is one request to an app, from a sample of recorded traffic.

How figures are published

Shares and category growth are shown as bands. The fastest-growing apps show their measured growth percentages.

What this does not establish

A high rank means agents used that app a lot, not that it's better. An app also has to have been used the week before to rank, so a one-week spike doesn't count.

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