25/08/2026
Here's a number worth sitting with. Gartner expects more than 40 percent of agentic AI projects to be cancelled before 2027, even as adoption keeps climbing, a figure also reported by Accelirate and Joget.
That's not a technology failure. Most of these systems work exactly as built.
It's a governance failure. Roughly 60 percent of organisations running agents in production still don't have formal governance around them. No clear owner. No audit trail. No answer to "what happens when the agent gets it wrong." (Joget)
An agent with no owner isn't an asset. It's a liability that hasn't been discovered yet.
The businesses still running these projects in 2027 will be the ones who treated governance as part of the build, not an afterthought bolted on when something breaks.
At MVP1, every agent we deploy ships with a clear owner, a defined boundary of what it can and can't decide alone, and a paper trail that holds up if someone asks "why did it do that."
If you're running AI agents right now and can't answer who owns them, that's worth fixing before it becomes the reason the project gets cancelled.
Curious what other founders are seeing, is anyone actually confident in who owns their AI agents right now?