Who Credentialed Your AI Agents?

By the end of this year, the average enterprise will be running 1,600 AI agents (IBM Research, 2026).

Yet, seventy percent of leaders can't tell you what the ones they already have are actually doing.

In a hospital, nobody touches a patient before going through credentialing. There is verified training, defined privileges, and a clear line on exactly what they can do, what they can't do, and who signed off on it.

The Governing Gap

That's the exact piece most organizations skipped with AI agents. They're standing them up faster than they can answer three foundational questions:

• Which ones are live?
• What are they explicitly allowed to touch?
• Who is accountable when an agent goes sideways?

The moment an automated process runs without a human name attached to "who owns this," it doesn't stay managed. It just waits to get discovered during an incident review.

Could you name every AI agent running inside your organization right now?