Signal Report forecasts custom applications rising from 2 percent in 2025 to 40 percent of portfolios by 2030

Summary

Gartner predicts that by 2030, two fifths of the application portfolios held by enterprises will contain custom applications built on AI-native development platforms. It sets the 2025 starting point at just 2%, which implies a twentyfold increase in five years. The forecast follows from Gartner's view that generative AI makes in-house software creation much faster and cheaper. That shift is expected to help chief information officers clear backlogs and tilt build-versus-buy decisions toward building. The report does not explain how the baseline or target was measured, leaving the scale of the jump unverified.