Airia included in the 2026 Gartner® Emerging Tech: AI Vendor Race: Enterprise AI Will Fail to Scale Without Agentic Orchestration Platforms

Enterprise AI adoption has reached a critical inflection point. While organizations have successfully automated individual tasks and deployed isolated AI pilots, they now face a fundamental challenge: scaling AI across the enterprise while maintaining security, governance, and control. 

According to Gartner’s latest research, “Emerging Tech: AI Vendor Race: Enterprise AI Will Fail to Scale Without Agentic Orchestration Platforms,” “Enterprise adoption of agentic AI has exposed a critical gap: organizations can automate individual tasks, but they cannot yet govern how those tasks work together to produce real outcomes.” 

Gartner highlights: “Market differentiation is shifting away from individual agents and toward orchestration architecture, where blueprints, context management, runtime optimization, and governance now determine platform value.” 

This shift addresses something we’ve observed across our enterprise customers. While individual AI agents can deliver impressive task-level automation, true enterprise value comes from orchestrating multiple agents, systems, and human workflows into governed, auditable processes.  

According to Gartner’s research, “Enterprise adoption is shifting to platforms that can verify outcomes end-to-end, with transparent evidence of performance, compliance, and cost control.” In our view, this underscores that sustainable AI adoption depends on CIOs and business users alike feeling confident that agents are secure and well governed. 

Unlike platforms that treat governance as an afterthought, Airia was built with enterprise security and compliance at the forefront. Our platform provides: 

Built-in Security and Risk Management 

• Advanced data loss prevention (DLP) policies that protect sensitive information across all AI interactions 

• Model-agnostic security controls that work regardless of your LLM provider 

• Comprehensive audit logging and lineage tracking for complete transparency 

End-to-End Governance 

• Policy enforcement across all agents and workflows 

• Human-in-the-loop (HITL) orchestration with structured oversight capabilities   

• Risk-tiered governance that applies appropriate controls based on business criticality 

Transparent Evidence and Control 

• Real-time visibility into AI performance, costs, and compliance status 

• Audit-ready evidence generation for regulatory requirements 

• Cost optimization and budget controls to prevent AI spend surprises 

There are three core layers essential for agentic orchestration platforms: 

Airia’s no-code, low-code, and pro-code agent builder provides teams across skill levels the ability to define and coordinate AI workflows through reusable blueprints. Teams can experiment in a safe environment to build teams of agents and automate workflows. IT teams can feel confident with cost optimization policies and a robust routing engine to keep AI dependable and predictable. 

Airia gives you control over all AI activities across your agentic ecosystem. Proactively identify, inventory, and eliminate potential risks as new threat vectors are introduced. Automatically assess threats and quickly mitigate vulnerabilities, so you can feel more confident in driving organizational AI adoption.   

Manage and automate your AI policies so you have peace of mind knowing that employees are innovating without risk. Airia’s AI Governance solution drives trust and prepares your organization for the future of AI regulations. Audit and monitor your AI operations to ensure compliance with laws like EU AI Act, NIST AI RMF and ISO 42001 across all AI usage.  

Gartner recommends: “Drive agentic outcomes while preventing agent sprawl by ensuring orchestration logic is consistently applied across agents and systems as autonomy scales.” 

This challenge—preventing “agent sprawl”—is one we frequently see across enterprise customers. Individual teams create point solutions that work in isolation but create governance gaps, security vulnerabilities, and integration nightmares when scaling across the organization. 

Airia’s platform addresses this with: 

• Centralized Agent Management: All AI agents, regardless of how they’re built, operate within a unified governance framework 

• Consistent Policy Application: Security, compliance, and performance policies apply automatically across all workflows   

• Integrated Enterprise Connectivity: Pre-built connectors and APIs ensure agents work safely with existing systems 

• Unified Observability: Complete visibility into all AI activities from a single dashboard 

Gartner’s research positions agentic orchestration as “the control layer that lets agentic platforms scale from isolated pilots to governed and autonomous execution, improving speed, lowering cost, and enabling new AI-driven growth.” 

For enterprise leaders, the message is clear: the organizations that successfully orchestrate AI across their enterprise—with proper governance, security, and control—will capture disproportionate value from AI transformation. 

In our view, Airia’s inclusion in this Gartner research validates our approach: enterprises need platforms that unite security, governance, and orchestration from the ground up.  

Request a demo to see how Airia’s agentic orchestration platform can accelerate your AI transformation while maintaining the security and governance your enterprise requires. 

Source: Gartner, Emerging Tech: AI Vendor Race: Enterprise AI Will Fail to Scale Without Agentic Orchestration Platforms, Vuk Janosevic, Raymond Paquet, Tom Coshow, Eric Goodness, Jan 27, 2026 

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