AI Pulse · Business Models & Winners

A startup called Neo just raised $100 million before most people knew it existed. Their pitch is simple: companies are about to lose track of which AI agents are doing what, and someone needs to keep score before things break.

Neo’s product works like an inventory and gatekeeper rolled into one. It catalogs every piece of agentic software running inside your company, tags every action back to a person or bot or app, and stops risky moves before they happen. Think of it as air traffic control for software that can act on its own. The company’s announcement points to Gartner research showing that agentic capability in enterprise apps will jump from around 5 percent this year to 40 percent by the end of 2026. That’s a fast ramp, and it explains why investors wrote a check this size.

Why this matters to you

If the Gartner forecast is even half right, you’ll have dozens of tools making decisions without a human in the loop within eighteen months. Sales agents booking meetings. Finance bots approving expenses. Support agents closing tickets. Each one is useful until you can’t tell which agent did what, or one of them does something your compliance team never cleared.

Neo’s bet is that “agent supply chain” becomes a category, the same way API gateways and identity providers did a decade ago. For a business owner, the question is whether you wait for a problem or put guard rails up now. This is exactly the kind of orchestration layer we build into an AI command centre, a single place to see what’s running, who authorized it, and where the gaps are. You don’t need a $100 million platform on day one, but you do need a plan before your agents outnumber your people.