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Agents at Work
Discovery, posture assessment, runtime monitoring, and risk flagging are no longer speculative bets. They are forming as a distinct funded category, backed by concentrated capital and a looming enterprise failure rate.
◆ Dana Ellison
Agents at Work
The governance layer is forming faster than the measurement layer can validate it. ServiceNow, Workday, DXC, NeuBird, and Proofpoint-Varonis all shipped governance products in a 13-day window—but the question of whether these controls actually work remains unanswered.
◆ Dana Ellison
Agents at Work
The first major payments processor to publicly frame the agent authorization question is arguing for more friction, not less – and the virtual card may be its near-term answer.
◆ Dana Ellison
Agents at Work
The 52% premium and 53x FCF multiple signal that governing what agents can access is now a growth category, not a perimeter afterthought.
◆ Dana Ellison
Agents at Work
The enterprise workflow giant shifts from governed autonomy to cryptographic identity verification for AI agents. 100% of banks use AI; 24% have governance to match.
◆ Dana Ellison
Agents at Work
Enterprises with full visibility into agentic AI operating costs are 5x more likely to report established ROI. The problem isn't just that costs are seller-made — it's that the enterprises that track them are the only ones winning.
◆ Dana Ellison
Agents at Work
By integrating automated opportunity identification with unattended execution, the enterprise workflow incumbent attempts to move agentic AI from experimentation to production-grade governance.
◆ Dana Ellison
Agents at Work
As 60% of production AI deployments lack adequate governance, Druid AI launches an MCP-enabled framework to provide the audit trail enterprises are actually asking for.
◆ Dana Ellison
Agents at Work
By making OpenAI models the "native brain" of its agent layer, Atlassian brings the multi-vendor model-routing pattern to the project management stack, grounded in proprietary organizational context.
◆ Dana Ellison
Agents at Work
xAI just printed GrokBot's seat price – the only visible line in an enterprise agent deployment bill whose implementation, licensing, and operations costs stay unpublished. Every granular cost figure in circulation is seller-made.
◆ Dana Ellison
