The hidden cost of unmanaged AI agents at enterprise scale
As enterprises accelerate AI agent deployment, a new operational risk is emerging — agent sprawl. Teams across the business are spinning up agents independently without centralised visibility, governance, or lifecycle management.
Agent sprawl is not a future concern. It is already happening. In a 2025 survey of enterprise AI adopters, 67% reported having agents deployed that their IT organisation did not fully catalogue.
This whitepaper makes the case for a dedicated Agent Management Platform as a core piece of enterprise AI infrastructure.
What’s inside
Here is a glimpse of what this whitepaper covers.
- •What agent sprawl is, how it develops, and why traditional IT governance tools cannot contain it
- •The five failure modes that emerge when enterprise agents operate without centralised oversight
- •The functional requirements of an Agent Management Platform and how to evaluate vendors
- •A 90-day roadmap for moving from ad-hoc agent deployment to governed, observable agent operations