Gartner maps no-code agent builders, and integration vendors are in the picture

When Gartner gives a market its own analysis, buyers start to treat it as a separate category. In June 2026, Gartner published its first Emerging Market Quadrant for no-code agent builders: tools that let business teams build and run AI agents without writing code. On 15 June, Boomi announced that it had been placed as a Pioneer.

What Gartner published

According to Boomi’s announcement, Gartner defines no-code agent builders as SaaS products with a combined design and runtime environment for building, publishing and managing AI agents without coding.

An Emerging Market Quadrant is not the same as a Magic Quadrant. It is used for young markets where products and vendors change quickly, and it groups vendors by type rather than ranking them on a fixed scale.

Boomi says Gartner describes its group as vendors that are established in integration and automation, that now focus on agent-based automation, and that build their agent tools on libraries of deterministic automation. The ambition, according to the description, is to become a broader orchestrator of AI agents.

In its own article on the market, Gartner points to how fast things are moving: 17% of enterprises had AI agents in production in 2025, while 42% plan to deploy them in 2026.

Why it matters

The interesting part is not that Boomi is in the report, but that integration vendors have a place of their own in a report about agents. It confirms the argument these vendors have made over the past year: an agent is only useful if it can act in business systems, and integration vendors already have the connections, the processes and the controls to make that safe.

The phrase “deterministic automation libraries” is key. Integration vendors bring a large set of fixed, tested flows that agents can call. That is a different starting point from vendors that start with the language model and add connections later.

How to use it

A new analyst category is useful for seeing who is in the market, but it says little about which tool fits a specific company. The no-code agent builder market also overlaps with iPaaS, automation platforms and the agent tools from cloud providers and application vendors.

1. Use it to widen the list, not to choose. The report can show vendors you had not considered, but test them on your own use cases.
2. Ask what the agent can reach. Check which business systems the agent builder can use out of the box, and how access is governed.
3. Check the mix of fixed and flexible. Ask how the tool combines fixed integration flows with the more open reasoning of the agent, and who decides where the line goes.