⚠ Agent governance gap
Your teams are deploying agents. Can you actually govern them?
Real 2026 data on where enterprise AI agent deployment is outpacing control — and what run.pay Enterprise already does about it.
40%
of enterprise apps will include agents by end of 2026, up from under 5% in 2025
Gartner
12%
of IT leaders say they can actually govern the agents they've deployed
OutSystems, 2026
35%
of organizations couldn't shut down a rogue agent if one emerged
Evolvance Market Research
82%
of enterprises already have agents their security team doesn't know about
Zylos Research
This isn't hypothetical — three real 2026 incidents
Named companies, publicly reported, this year.
Uber — exhausted its entire 2026 AI budget by April. Four months in. Its own CTO said the company was "back to the drawing board." Agent token consumption doesn't appear on a purchase order and doesn't map to a cost center — it's invisible by design until finance notices the total. (Portal26, 2026)
A healthcare enterprise consumed one trillion tokens over six months, generating more than $6M in unplanned costs — before finance even understood what was driving it. No single decision caused this; it accumulated through normal, ungoverned agent activity. (Portal26, 2026)
Meta rated a rogue-agent incident Sev 1 — its second-highest internal severity — after an agent's guidance led an employee to expose company and user data to unauthorized engineers for two hours. (TechCrunch, March 2026)
The gap, mapped directly to what we've already built
Not a roadmap. Every item on the right is a real, working feature in run.pay Enterprise today.
35% couldn't shut down a rogue agent
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Kill Switch — freeze one agent, one vendor, or the entire platform, instantly
82% have agents security doesn't know about
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Shared wallet + role-based access — every agent provisioned through one visible system, not scattered team-level API keys
"What happened, when, by whom" is unknowable after an incident
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Full audit log — every action, every agent, timestamped and reviewable
AI spend often 3-5x estimated, with no negotiation leverage
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Per-agent daily spending limits — set the ceiling before the spend happens, not after the invoice
What this page isn't claiming: run.pay doesn't govern every AI tool your teams use — it governs spend and access for agents that call services through run.pay specifically. If your real exposure is unsanctioned ChatGPT subscriptions or ungoverned internal copilots, that's a broader governance problem this doesn't solve alone. What we do solve: the moment an agent needs to autonomously pay for something, that moment is now visible, limited, and reversible.