Executive Briefs
One brief per month. Each one names a pattern, cites the data behind it and ends with three questions to take to your team.
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Agent Sprawl: When More Agents Means Less Control
Agent sprawl is what happens when agents are added one use case at a time, each sensible on its own, until nobody can say how many exist, what they cost or which ones overlap. The problem is not the number of agents. It is the absence of a portfolio.
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Who Owns an AI Agent?
Ask who owns an AI agent and most companies name the team that built it. That is the wrong answer. Every agent needs one economic owner: a person in the business who answers for whether it should keep running.
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Agents of Chaos: What the Northeastern Study Means for Your Board
In a two-week experiment, researchers at Northeastern University manipulated six autonomous AI agents into leaking private information and even wiping an email server. For executives, the lesson is not about better security tooling. It is about who decided those agents should have that access — and who answers for it.
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Why Per-Agent ROI Is the Wrong Question
Boards want proof that AI agents pay back, and they are right to ask. But demanding an ROI number for each agent produces false precision and kills the experiments worth keeping. The right unit of measurement is the portfolio.
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Shadow AI: The Agents You Pay For and Cannot See
AI agents are now built inside business units, SaaS tools and personal accounts — faster than IT can govern them. Shadow AI is not a policy failure. It is an inventory failure, and it has a cost nobody is tracking.
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Executive Briefings
One brief per month: a pattern, the data behind it and three questions for your team. You also get The Board Questions as a printable one-pager.