Gartner reckons over 40% of agentic AI projects get canned by 2027. Not because the models are bad. Because nobody built the safety net.
Okay so that stat has been quoted so much it's basically lost its bite by now. But stick with me, because the reason buried inside it is the one most teams still aren't talking about: inadequate risk controls. Not cost. Not "unclear ROI." Risk controls.
If you're building agentic AI for a fintech or healthtech company, that line should worry you more than any of the others, because it's not a demo problem. It's a production problem. And in a regulated shop, production problems don't get killed in a budget review. They get killed in a compliance review.
Key Definitions 🧐
Before we get into why this happens, a few terms worth pinning down.
