What we are thinking about.
Notes on agentic AI, the partner channel and the small businesses it will reach.
We sell an agent workforce. So we pointed one at ourselves.
How Outermind's own product gets planned, written, reviewed and shipped by agents.
Your AI Agent Should Never Hold Your Credentials
Most AI agents are handed a credential and left to use it. That single design choice turns prompt injection into privilege escalation and leaves nowhere to put a control. Here is the architecture that removes the credential from the agent entirely, and the six questions to ask any vendor.
Agent Washing: Why Gartner Says 87% of "Agentic AI" Vendors Are Lying to You
Gartner estimates only ~130 of thousands of self-described "agentic AI" vendors are genuinely agentic. The rest are chatbots in costumes. Here's how to spot agent washing and why it's costing SMBs real money, real time, and real security.
67% of CIOs Can't Control Their AI Agents. IBM Just Proved It.
IBM surveyed 2,000 CIOs and CTOs. 67% say they can't fully control what their AI agents do. Only 11% have governance in place. Here's what the 25% who closed the gap did differently — and why governance is an architecture requirement, not a compliance checkbox.
Your AI Agent Just Ran Up a $47,000 Weekend Bill
A startup's AI agent looped for 11 days without a single alert. The bill: $47,000. This is not a horror story about bad luck. It is a governance story about what happens when autonomous agents run without hard limits. Here is what Outermind built to make sure it never happens to you.
Your AI Agent Has a Shadow. Okta Just Found It.
Okta's April 30 launch of Shadow Agent Discovery validates what we've been saying since day one: the governance problem in agentic AI is the central challenge of the entire category. Identity is necessary, but not sufficient. Here's why bolted-on governance always loses to built-in.
The Week Everything Changed for AI Governance
Microsoft Agent 365 GA and Okta's AI governance platform validate that autonomous agent governance is now a product category. Here's what the headlines are missing.
The 94% Problem: Why Every Company Deploying AI Agents Is Losing Control
94% of organizations say AI sprawl is increasing their complexity, technical debt, and security risk - yet 96% are already running agents. Here's why governance-first architecture is the only way to win the agentic AI era.
How We Built an AI Memory System That Learns While It Sleeps
Every AI agent on the market today has the same fatal flaw: it forgets. Here's how Outermind built a four-layer memory architecture - including an overnight Dream Cycle - that gives AI agents the ability to genuinely learn and improve over time.