From petrodollar to AI currency: Who will control the money of the agentic economy?

Over 20-plus years in the enterprise trenches, I’ve watched multi-million-dollar technology transformations stumble over the same blind spot. We spend months debating cloud architectures, database benchmarks and vendor feature matrices. But the tech itself?

That’s rarely where the real bleeding happens. The real pain arrives later, in the messy organizational wake: Who actually controls this system? What critical business function did we just accidentally outsource?

How painful will it be to untangle ourselves when the vendor changes their licensing model? Agentic AI is about to make those…