Gartner predicts that more than 40% of agentic AI projects will be canceled by 2027. The debate has centered on escalating costs, unclear business value and inadequate risk controls. But having led IT infrastructure through major divestitures and cross-border integrations over the past two decades, I see a more fundamental problem: most agentic infrastructure is built as if enterprise boundaries are permanent. They are not. The average Fortune 500 company undergoes a significant merger, acquisition or divestiture every 3.5 years. Business units get carved out. Acquisitions get absorbed. Regulatory shifts force operational separation. Yet most agentic AI implementations would fail catastrophically the moment someone says, “We’re spinning off that division.”

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