Your 2027 AI budget has a line for agents. Does it have one for accountability?
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It’s 2027 planning season, and almost every CIO has a line for AI agents in next year’s budget. Fewer have a line for keeping track of them.
That gap is already showing up. Agents are arriving through every door at once: built by engineering teams, switched on inside SaaS tools the business already pays for, and spun up by individual employees with a browser and a credit card. Each one gets credentials. Each one calls systems. Many of them act without a human approving each step.
IT leaders have seen this before. The difference this time is that the things multiplying don’t just store data or expose it. They make decisions and take actions with it.
Round three of a familiar fight
The first round was SaaS. Departments bought tools faster than IT could review them, and many organizations only got visibility once renewals, security incidents or audit...
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