What separates a successful Agentforce delivery from an unsuccessful one? This is the question that’s keeping many partners awake at night. According to Salesforce’s 2026 Q2 earnings call, there were more than 6,000 paid customers of Agentforce, which is impressive for a year-old platform. Still, this is a small fraction of Salesforce’s pool of 150,000 CRM customers. This means that real-life Agentforce experience remains a niche. As of January 2026, very few individuals have implemented it beyond a Trailhead learning environment or their personal developer org. Even fewer have released an agent into production. This is more a testament to the challenge than to a lack of skill. Compared to previous Salesforce applications, Agentforce is a truly transformative technology that forces companies to rethink their processes and ways of working from the ground up. In my experience, most leaders simply aren’t comfortable accepting a less than 90% success rate with autonomous AI. However, the truth is, agents will fail—that’s simply their nature. The sooner you accept that, the sooner you can build solutions that last beyond the pilot phase.