Who's Managing Your Agent Workforce? (And Whose Budget Are They On?)
Every major enterprise platform this quarter — Salesforce, Workday, Microsoft, SAP, Oracle, ServiceNow, IBM — is pitching a control plane for your AI agents. But none of them is solving the real problem: who inside your org actually owns the agent workforce, and who's steering it at the speed agents now act? A Lens Four analysis of the HR-procurement collision, the pricing collapse underneath it, and the leadership cadence most executives aren't ready for.
You're Still Reading the Advisory. The Attacker Already Left.
On April 7, Anthropic deployed Claude Mythos Preview to 12 elite partners under Project Glasswing. The model found thousands of zero-day vulnerabilities in weeks. The real story is the intelligence asymmetry it created — and what it means for every organization that wasn't in the room.
You Shot the Arrow. The Bow Went With It.
At RSAC 2026, six hundred vendors competed for attention with nearly identical claims. A Forrester analyst couldn't tell them apart. Neither could the buyers. Sean Martin examines how the cybersecurity industry's lead-generation-driven messaging is producing false confidence, paralysis, and business misalignment — and what vendors, buyers, and the market need to do differently.
Order of Operations: The Foundation Risk Healthcare AI Is Running Past
Healthcare organizations are approving AI deployments on foundations they know are incomplete — identity gaps unresolved, vendor integrations unevaluated, data ownership questions deferred. TEFCA is moving patient data nationally at speed while the governance layer is still being assembled, and the CMS policy agenda is accelerating pressure the infrastructure isn't ready to absorb. The patient is sitting in that gap — and the question is whether anyone upstream has checked the water.
Task by Task: The Workflows We're Handing to AI — One Decision at a Time
Nobody decided to remove the human from the workflow. But map five reasonable procurement decisions together and something significant emerges: the human is already optional. Sean Martin examines the workflows organizations have handed to AI — task by task — and what that means for accountability, governance, and competitive advantage.