Executive Summary Somewhere inside your organization right now, an AI agent is probably doing something nobody explicitly asked it to do in that exact way. Approving a small vendor payment, maybe. Drafting a compliance filing. Or talking to another company's AI agent, with neither human on either side actually watching that exchange happen. Welcome to agentic AI, and to the reason "AI governance" quietly stopped meaning "who fact-checks the chatbot" and started meaning someth

Let me start with a question most boards have not yet asked themselves out loud. If an AI agent in your company places an order, signs off a refund, files a customs entry, or sends a quote to a client at 3 AM on a Sunday — and gets it wrong — who exactly is accountable on Monday morning? If you paused for a second there, you are not alone. That pause is the whole problem with agentic AI governance right now. Boards across India, the US, and Europe are sitting on a quiet shift