CEO @Guildai | VP Eng Meta/Instagram | Cofounder/SVP Eng Lightspark | VP Eng Yahoo | CEO Luminate | CTO/Cofounder LiveOps | Netscape Browser Eng Lead, Borland
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State of Agent Governance—June 2026
According to @Gartner_inc , the average Fortune 500 will deploy more than 150K AI agents by 2028.
Only 13% believe they have the right agent governance to support it (@McKinsey ).
There's no doubt, agent usage is growing fast; but the systems to govern it responsibly still aren't keeping pace.
As agent sprawl takes hold in the enterprise, it’s creating a perfect storm of increased complexity and decreased visibility--and left unchecked, it's poised to turn a little agent governance gap into a big agent governance crisis.
In our State of Agent Governance report, we review four of the biggest agent governance challenges facing enterprise teams right now and how the shadow of agent sprawl is exacerbating their impact:
- Runaway token costs
- Agent lifecycle management
- Unmanaged security risks
- Lack of organizational accoutability
Check out our analysis of agent governance and why we believe better infrastructure will be the key to better outcomes in 2026 .
Full report here: guild.ai/knowledge/ai-insigh…
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Jun 11
Thanks for having me on, @MTSlive. Had a great time. Always enjoy talking about where agent infrastructure is headed and what we’re learning along the way at @GuildAI.
We had @jevering, CEO of @GuildAI on the show to explain how companies are deploying AI agents, the challenges they're facing, and where Guild fits in the stack.
"We saw firewalls and the cybersecurity software business arise because you had intentionally bad actors trying to compromise your company's infrastructure.
Well, you have a new problem when you put AI agents inside your company.
They're unintentionally bad. You can't really predict what they'll do, they're very goal-end oriented, and they don't know the difference between right and wrong. "
"If you want to be able to tell what an agent did two years ago, you need to be able to look at a history and see what it touched. So you need auditability and logging.
You might want an agent to be able to access your CRM but not access your finance system, so you need to set up policies for that."
"Cost controls is another thing. You see a lot of people talking about the spend, token maxing, and how much agents are costing. But really the question is: how much are the agents adding value to your business? Can you look at each one and figure out if that agent is doing what it was set up to do?
And that is a type of observability that you also need, and a system like ours provides it.”
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Controlling agents is top of mind for the enterprise and @GuildAI CoFounder @jevering is sharing his perspective after 40 years in the industry.
Check him out on the @mlopscommunity podcast with @Dpbrinkm to learn what AI investments are revealing about security and why access control is essential infrastructure for productizing agents safely at speed.
Full episode available here:
Spotify—open.spotify.com/episode/2MX…
MLOps Community— home.mlops.community/home/vi…
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Jun 9
Agent infrastructure is moving fast. And getting weirder.
Today at 3 PM PT, I’ll be live on X with the Monitoring the Situation team talking about tokenmaxxing, rogue agents, and where we’re headed next.
Excited to share what I’m seeing, what I’m learning, and what I think builders should be paying attention to.
How can you move faster with agents? @GuildAI CoFounder @jevering joins @MTSlive today at 3PM PT to discuss tokenmaxxing, rogue agents, and why better infrastructure is the key to controlling production agents at scale.
Shoutout to @gbrl_dick for hosting.
Watch live on X x.com/MTSlive
Watch on YouTube lnkd.in/epsS7naJ
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Jun 1
Governance only works when it's independent of the thing being governed.
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How you build your agents has a lot to say about how you'll govern them as well.
In his latest, Guild engineer @text2goat will walk you through how he builds an LLM agent on Guild's control plane.
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May 27
Flexible work has been a passion of mine for a long time. Excited to join the WorkWhile board and help shape how AI can create better outcomes and more opportunity for workers and businesses alike.
May 26
Big update from WorkWhile 🚀
We’re thrilled to announce our latest news: “WorkWhile Appoints AI and Infrastructure Leader James Everingham to Board of Directors“.
Get the full story here 👇
#WorkWhile share.prnewswire.com/s/cxFOg…
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@Microsoft just turned off Claude Code because the usage costs were too high. @ServiceNow blew through their entire 2026 token budget before Memorial Day.
@Uber too.
@Gartner_inc now predicts that over 40% of agentic AI projects will be canceled by the end of 2027, not because the models got worse, but because the economics and the risk profile never closed.
This isn’t a value problem. It’s not even a pricing problem.
It’s a discipline problem.
You can’t control spend until you know how much you’re spending. And you can’t know what you’re spending if you don’t know what agents you’re accountable for in the first place.
- Audit trails.
- Tracked permissions.
- Clear and enforceable ownership standards.
- And the insights to respond quickly when your agents fail.
This is the neutral governance layer that agents have been operating without since GPT 3.
We decided it’s time to build it.
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May 21
Check out a demo of @GuildAI in action.
"When I was leading the developer infrastructure team at Meta, we were supporting tens of thousands of engineers, and we started to see the shift—from tools that assist to systems that actually take action... And once that starts to happen, the question changes pretty quickly." - @jevering
→ Ownership.
→ Access controls.
→ Visibility.
→ Cost management.
→ Audit-ability.
When it comes to production agents, the question isn't "does it work?"
The real question is, "who's controlling it?"
Building agents is the easy part.
Managing them safely at enterprise scale isn't.
That's the problem we're solving at Guild.
So, what does that really mean? We'll let James and founding engineer Vincent Durmont tell you in their own words.
youtube.com/watch?v=02D47rHl…
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In a world full of surprises, sometimes you just need a little determinism in your life.
In this quick demo, @text2goat will show you how to create deterministic type-script agents with Guild—and satisfy your maniacal need for control.
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“Over decades working in infrastructure, I’ve seen this pattern repeat.
A new capability shows up, teams start using it everywhere, and before long they need systems to coordinate and control it… I think agents are heading in the same direction.” -@jevering
Right now the ecosystem is focused on frameworks and SDKs: LangChain, CrewAI, AutoGen, OpenAI’s SDKs, and dozens more.
But once they’re touching source code, production systems, internal tools, customer data, and financial systems, you start needing things like:
- identity and permissions
- auditability and tracing
- operational visibility
- cost and resource control
- safe rollout and rollback
The ecosystem is still focused on building agents.
Eventually it will focus on operating them.
That’s the problem we’re solving at Guild.
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May 8
Multi-agent systems are cool. Managing them in production is the hard part.
Guild is building the control plane for agentic engineering. ⚔️🛡️
Pining for a 3-minute Guild demo? You're in luck.
Check out this quick demo from @text2goat to see how easy it is to get up and managing on Guild's agent control plane. 🛡️ ⚔️
youtube.com/watch?v=Hhf09Q-4…
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May 2
Agents Need a Better Control Layer
Anyone can build an agent. But very few understand what they’re doing in production. Or even what they’re allowed to do. That’s an infrastructure problem. And it’s a problem we’re solving here at Guild.
Guild went live with our open beta on Wednesday, and we’re thrilled with the response so far.
So if you have a little time this weekend, I’d love it if you’d give it a try yourself, and if you have any questions along the way, drop me a message, or better yet, share your questions right here in the comments. I’m standing by to answer them!
The team made a short video to explain what we’ve been up to - check it out below.
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Apr 29
We’re opening up Guild today.
Agents are already acting in production systems.
Most teams can’t tell you exactly what they did.
That’s a problem.
This requires a control plane.
guild.ai/knowledge/the-contr…
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Apr 16
Agents are easy to build.
They’re hard to run.
Then they hit production, and you realize:
— no one knows what they can access
— no one’s tracking what they cost
— no one owns them when they break
Building agents is easy.
Running them is the problem no one’s solved.
We’re hosting Guild Forge in SF on April 29.
Hands-on. No slides. Come build with us.
luma.com/bjsqe9se
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Thanks for having us on! Great conversation.
Apr 9
What happens when a startup's mission perfectly aligns with the biggest trend in tech? That's exactly where Guild AI finds itself in 2026.
James Everingham, CEO of Guild AI, joins The Deep View Conversations to talk about building a safety layer for AI agents. The product launched in fall 2025 and just months later found itself near the center of the most important movement in enterprise AI.
In this conversation, James breaks down how Guild's platform deploys dozens of workflow-specific agents across different parts of a business, while giving developers the tools to iterate, spin up custom agents, and operate in a safe environment that tracks everything agents do and protects companies from unpredictable outcomes.
Topics covered:
The enduring power of bottom-up innovation
How Guild AI's agent supervision platform works
Why safety infrastructure is the new competitive moat
Lessons from James' earlier career at Netscape and Meta
Open-source vs. proprietary models: how it plays out over the next few years
A standout leadership tip for sparking innovation on your team
His best advice for getting maximum impact from today's AI tools.
If you want to understand where AI agents are headed and what it takes to build them responsibly, this conversation is a powerful place to start.
📺 Watch on YouTube: youtube.com/watch?v=ANhHstor…
🎧 Listen in your favorite podcast player: tdv.transistor.fm/episodes/3…
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Our CEO @jevering on the @ryanlpeterman pod — pre-IPO Netscape, head of eng at Instagram, crypto at Meta, career regrets, and what he's building now with Guild.
Worth the watch ⬇️
youtube.com/watch?v=VIF5Fm8N…
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Apr 3
Getting this in front of our first customers has been 🔥
TL;DR: this is what it looks like when agents stop living inside tools and start operating across your entire engineering system.
Your flash sale is live. Tickets start flooding in.
"Charged but no order." Then another. Then another. 23 customers. Zero fulfillment. Revenue is bleeding and nobody knows why.
A Guild agent picks it up. Searches Jira, queries New Relic, finds the exact buggy line in GitHub.
Root cause, blast radius, recovery plan — delivered to the on-call engineer in 52 seconds.
8 agents. 4 integrations. One control plane.
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Speed is killing AI startups.
Not because they're moving too fast, but because they're not building the systems to sustain what they ship.
@jevering breaks down why the next real layer of AI infrastructure isn't another model. It's governance, auditability, and the systems that make agents safe enough to trust inside an enterprise.
Full episode: youtube.com/watch?v=3Iu1j_ph…
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