Forrester has published The Agentic Development Platforms Landscape, Q3 2026, its overview of the vendors shaping the agentic development platform market. Bolt.new is included as a notable vendor.
For a company that started as a browser tab running Node.js, this one feels good. Here's what the report covers and why we think it's worth your time, whether or not you build with Bolt.new.
What is an agentic development platform?
Forrester has tracked the shift in how software gets built for years, back to when it coined “TuringBots” for the first generation of AI coding assistants. Forrester’s position: the market has moved past code assistance. As analyst Diego Lo Giudice wrote earlier this year, “GenAI is no longer just helping developers to write code faster; it is reshaping how software is planned, built, tested, and delivered” (Forrester, 2026).
Agentic development platforms are the tools built for that reality. Instead of autocompleting a line or generating a snippet, they take intent — a feature description, a data source, a design — and carry it across the development lifecycle: planning, building, testing, and delivery. The Landscape maps who the vendors are, how they differ, and what buyers should expect from the category.
Why we’re in it
Bolt.new turns a prompt into a working, full-stack application, in real code your engineers can read, edit, and own. Product managers and designers build and validate; engineering takes the work forward through Git and the tools they already use. And it all ships through the governance IT requires: SSO, admin controls, and deployments that stay private by default.
Forrester’s own research argues that coding is only one slice of the lifecycle, and that the gains compound when AI works across all of it (Forrester, 2026). That’s the bet we made when we built Bolt.new on WebContainers: the whole development environment, from first prompt to deployed app, in the browser. Inclusion in the Landscape puts us on the map Forrester has drawn of that market.
Read the full report
If you’re evaluating how AI fits into how your teams build software, start here. The report lays out how Forrester defines the category, how the vendors differ, and the questions worth asking before you invest.
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