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The governance gap.
Forrester says 71% of enterprises deploying agents have no governance framework, and 64% plan to give those agents more autonomy in the next twelve months. The math is bad. Here's a working framework you can use this week, and the four questions to answer before your CISO does.
Read note →Why non-deterministic agents belong in creative work.
Most enterprise teams are turning the temperature dial down to zero, treating randomness like a defect. For deterministic work, that's right. For creative work, it's the same mistake as hiring an exhausted copy editor to run your brainstorm. Here's when to crank it back up and how.
Read note →Buy, build, or borrow.
Gartner says 40% of agentic AI projects will be cancelled by end of 2027. Forrester says 75% of enterprises trying to build will fail. The buy-vs-build framing is broken. There's a third option most leaders haven't priced. Here's how to decide what stays in-house, what doesn't, and what to do with the seam.
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