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16 December 2025 • 1 mins

"AI Vendor Race: AI Agent Management Platform: The Most Valuable Real Estate in AI"


As AI agents become embedded across the customer journey, from support to sales to operations, CIOs face a growing challenge: managing AI agent sprawl. Agents are deployed across departments, regions, and channels—often without shared visibility, logic, or control.

In our opinion, this new Gartner® report defines what comes next: the rise of the AI agent management platform (AMP) as the backbone for AI governance. These platforms don’t just organize agent deployment; they provide means to unify the tools, libraries, security layers, and dashboards needed to monitor performance, mitigate risk, and scale with confidence.

We’re offering complimentary access to the full report. We believe it provides clarity on:

  • Why Gartner identifies AMPs as “the most valuable real estate in AI”

  • The emerging risks tied to agent proliferation and what to do about them

  • How tech leaders can position AMPs as an anchor point to rein in AI agent sprawl

Whether you're designing your stack or reevaluating your strategy, we think this report offers a grounded lens into the foundational layer that AI agents will depend on.

Gartner, AI Agent Management Platform: The Most Valuable Real Estate in AI, Tom Coshow, Jim Hare, Scott Frederick, 9 October 2025.

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