• WhiteHorse Capital flagged agentic AI as a structural shift for the roughly $1.9 trillion IT services market, reshaping delivery economics and pricing.
• Outlook split by segment: mission-critical managed services seen as more durable; commodity helpdesk, staff augmentation, offshore body shops face margin pressure.
• IDC projects 30% of IT services contracts shift to outcome-based pricing by 2029; 30% of services delivered as modular, platform-enabled products.
• Gartner data showed 14% of enterprises plan to handle AI work mainly in-house, supporting demand for service providers to execute deployments.
• Underwriting focus shifts to segment-level revenue mix, customer stickiness, management adaptability; higher-risk mixes may warrant lower leverage or tighter structures.

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