Here is a quiet number that has been making the rounds in CFO conversations for the last six months. Ninety-five percent. That is the share of corporate generative AI pilots that have not produced a measurable impact on profit and loss, according to a July 2025 report from MIT's NANDA initiative called The GenAI Divide. Between thirty and forty billion dollars has been spent on enterprise AI. Five percent of those pilots are extracting millions in real value. The other ninety

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