Enterprise AI agents can't talk to each other, can't be trusted with permissions, and can't be audited — 5 startups are already fixing that
Enterprise AI agents can do the work — but the infrastructure to let them talk to each other, prove they should be trusted, and be audited when something goes wrong is still being built.Here's a look at how five startups are tackling that gap — around orchestration, observability, connectivity, and security — as shown at VB Transform 2026.BAND is orchestrating all the agents you have running in the backgroundIn the very near future, agents will be deployed everywhere, and they will do work on our behalf, noted Vlad Luzin, CTO and co-founder of BAND. As he describes it: They will receive tasks, visit registries, recruit other agents to help them, delegate subtasks to AI peers in a “conversational space,” gather and share results, then return a summary to the human user. BAND [...]
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