Agentic AI governance has fallen behind deployment in most Australian organisations. The accountability architecture gap cannot be resolved by monitoring dashboards. Five questions require executive-level answers before deployment scales beyond the point where the architecture can be retrofitted.
Token-based AI spend is opex, per-call, and demand-driven — structurally incompatible with plan/build/run. The CIOs who put a service catalogue, chargeback, product funding, and AI FinOps in place this year take a defensible position into the next budget cycle.
The AI agent governance gate sits between pilot KPIs and production credentials. Most pipelines skip it. Gartner predicts 40 per cent of agentic AI projects will be cancelled by 2027; Forrester places 85 per cent of enterprises outside the ROI zone. Build the gate before the first incident, not after.
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