Enterprise AI agents can't talk to each other, can't be trusted with permissions, and can't be audited — 5 startups are already fixing that
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The constraint on enterprise AI agents isn’t capability, it’s plumbing—identity, permissions, observability, and inter-agent communication are the new middleware layer. If you’re piloting agents, treat orchestration and auditability as first-class vendor categories, not afterthought features.
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