Charles Gabriel named the agent governance layer before there was a market for it
In Ep13 of Brew Bytes, recorded before any of this week's reporting, Charles Gabriel was asked what comes after automating the creative workflow, and he went straight past the automation to the layer above it: "now you're going to need agent governance... You're going to need a system that's going to govern the agents."
What it actually means
He was right about the requirement, and this week the market showed what it is willing to sell against it, which is 106 funded observability companies and a monitor made of the same material as the thing it governs. The gap between the two is where the work sits for anyone running agents in a real business, because the requirement Charles described is a control question and what is arriving is mostly a tooling answer.
You're going to need a system that's going to govern the agents.
Source: Brew Bytes Ep13 · Charles Gabriel · Friday 18 September 2026