AI Post-Merger Integration (AI PMI)
Every time a vendor switches on a new AI feature or an employee connects a tool, your company makes an “acquisition,” with no due diligence at all. Gartner expects the average Fortune 500 firm to run more than 150,000 AI agents by 2028, up from fewer than 15 in 2025.
Yet 56% of CEOs report no significant financial benefit from AI so far (PwC, 2026). Costs are climbing even as token prices fall, because agents use 5 to 30 times more tokens per task than chatbots, and 79% of finance leaders reported AI cost overruns in the past year. Meanwhile, California and Colorado rules take effect in January 2027 and EU high-risk obligations follow in December 2027. Those obligations fall on the company using the agent, not the vendor that built it.
This position paper from The Enterprise Edge® and Visual Resilience shows how to treat your agent estate like a post-merger integration. It sets out a four-phase method (Discover, Rationalise, Govern, Lean), a keep/consolidate/cull test for every agent, a regulatory timeline, and 30-, 90- and 180-day action plans for CEOs, CFOs and CIOs.
Start with five questions: How many agents do you run? Who owns them? What did they cost? Which can move money or touch customers? Can you switch one off within an hour?
If your answers are ranges, you need this paper.
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