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 background In the very near future, agents will be deployed everywhere, and they will do work