Crowdsourced from 298 LinkedIn comments · Oct 2026
What practitioners and vendors recommended to the Head of AI at a 30,000-employee organization, across three challenges. Pick a challenge to filter. Claims are as stated by the commenters and have not been verified.
Orchestrate brings in agents built in Azure AI Foundry and governs them in one place; Databricks agents connect over A2A. ContextForge is IBM's open-source MCP gateway with SSO, role-based access, guardrails and monitoring.
Suggested by an IBM Data & AI leadCloudflare's internal setup, with enterprise security at the center. Suggested by a user, not a seller.
Commenter uses it internallySuggested as Microsoft's identity-first control plane for agents, which covers much of #2 in a Foundry environment.
Advice that isn’t tied to a product.
Control access at the source so an app only sees what its builder can see. When an app graduates, the role that owns the process owns it. Govern what it encodes and the checks it must pass.
Once an app acts or others depend on it, give it a named owner and a backup, and move it to a scoped service identity. Add scheduled known-answer checks for correctness.