The Agent Explosion is Here: Why Companies Need an Agent Discovery & Governance (ADG) Strategy Now

The "Summer of Agents" has officially evolved into the "Winter of Oversight"

As Product Managers, Engineers, and Tech Leaders, we’ve spent the last year racing to move beyond simple chatbots toward autonomous agents. AI that doesn’t just talk, but acts. These agents are now processing data in our cloud environments, interacting with customers, and touching internal APIs.

But here is the reality check, according to McKinsey:

80% of organizations are already reporting risky behavior from AI agents

As these agents proliferate across various departments and are built across different stacks like Vertex AI, Bedrock, Agent Foundry, or LangChain, enterprise leaders are facing a "shadow AI" crisis. How do you secure what you can’t see? How do you ensure an agent in a sandbox isn't accidentally leaking PII or violating company IP?

Today, Arthur is solving this visibility gap with the launch of the industry’s first Agentic Discovery & Governance (ADG) Platform.

The Problem: Agentic Chaos

For technical teams, the challenge of scaling agentic AI is three-fold:

1. Discovery: Agents are often deployed across fragmented compute environments. Without a centralized inventory, it’s impossible to maintain business continuity or security.
2. Governance: Agents are a new, more powerful, more autonomous automation paradigm that requires a similar leap in automation technology to keep pace with them. Traditional tools are too blunt and ineffective with agents. You need granular controls that govern how an agent interacts with sensitive data, users, and external systems.
3. Performance: Agents that are incorrectly orchestrated, "loop", or too frequently fail at their tasks isn't just bad UX—it’s a drain on compute and a potential operational risk.

The Solution: A Unified Control Plane for Agents

Arthur’s ADG platform was built to turn this chaos into a structured, scalable operation. By providing a single governance framework, we’re giving teams the "green light" to innovate faster without the fear of a security nightmare.

Key Features for Product & Engineering Teams:

• Automated Agent Discovery: No more manual spreadsheets. Arthur automatically scans all your compute environments to discover and catalog agents as they appear.

• Agnostic Integrations: Whether you are building on Google Cloud Gemini, AWS Bedrock, or Microsoft Agent Foundry, Arthur integrates seamlessly. This allows your engineering teams to use the best tools for the job while maintaining a single security standard.

• Policy Enforcement and Guardrails: Implement automated "acceptable use" policies. If an agent attempts to access sensitive company IP or exceeds an operational threshold, Arthur provides the controls to alert or intervene in real-time.

• Performance Evaluation: Go beyond basic "accuracy" metrics. Our platform evaluates agents based on specific agentic tasks, ensuring they are performing reliably before they hit production.

The New Operational Standard for Enterprise AI

“The rapid pace of adoption of Agents across organizations means CIOs must now contend with discovering and securing this powerful technology,” said Adam Wenchel, Cofounder & CEO of Arthur. “Arthur is the first platform to make that easy to accomplish no matter where they are running, whether they were developed in-house or bought, or which AI provider is powering them.”

We believe that the bottleneck for AI adoption isn't the technology itself but building trust. By providing the visibility and control needed to manage agents at scale, Arthur is helping the world’s most sophisticated organizations move from experimental pilots to robust, agent-driven operations.

The era of "set it and forget it" AI is over. The era of governed, high-performance agentic discovery is here.

Want to see how Arthur can bring visibility to your agentic ecosystem? Contact our team today for a demo.