"2025 was meant to be the year agents transformed the enterprise, but the hype turned out to be mostly premature. It wasn't a failure of effort. It was a failure of approach." — Kate Jensen, Head of Americas, Anthropic, TechCrunch, February 2026Jensen's diagnosis is precise, and it matters that she made it in February 2026 — twelve months after the agent deployment wave crested. The teams that struggled in 2025 weren't short on ambition or resources. They were short on a coherent architecture for deciding what to build, what to buy, and how to govern the seam between the two.