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Business Rules in the AI Agentic Age

Why every agent action must pass through a decision you own, and how run-time enforcement makes agents safe to scale.

Jens Bontinck · July 2026 · executive report + appendices

In this paper

• Executive summary
• What changed & a year of incidents
• The discipline we already have
• The decision gap
• Where should the rules live?
• Anatomy of a governed call
• Governance is a by-product
• What to do on Monday
• Appendices: incident catalogue · buyer's rubric · glossary