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MTS · 2 min · Oct 17, 2026
Enterprise agents will spread across apps and act proactively
Bernardo Aceituno
President, Stack AI
Theo JaffeeHost · Co-founder & host, MTS
One of the first members of a16z's new media team; earlier hosted the Emergent Ventures-backed Theo Jaffee Podcast.
Sophia DewHost · Host, MTS
About this segment
Aceituno expects agents to appear across workplace products and shift from responding to monitoring operations. He says the market still needs a reliable way to support proactive recommendations and actions.
From “Enterprise AGI Was Achieved in February 2026 | Bernardo Aceituno”, Oct 17, 2026. Watch the full episode
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“proactively suggest actions, suggest next steps. Proactively take actions for you when needed.”
Takeaways
- He expects agents to be available in tools like Teams, Asana, and Confluence.
- Proactivity means monitoring company operations, not waiting for prompts.
- Agents could surface next steps and take actions when appropriate.
In this episode
Full episode- 1:02Enterprise AGI is changing the challenge from capability to control3:54
- 5:54The internet still makes basic tasks difficult for AI agents4:13
- 14:27Open-weight models give enterprises control over AI deployments2:54
- 10:38Enterprise AI tools need central control over access and deployment3:19
17:20Enterprise agents will spread across apps and act proactively1:56
Transcript
Transcribed by machine (Whisper) from the episode’s audio, so a word may be off here and there.
- 17:27
Yeah, no, it's very scary. I know we're at time. I really wanted to thank you for joining us. Super fascinating conversation. And before we head out, I just wanted to get maybe some of your predictions on what you think might be true and how enterprises use AI in a year from now that totally isn't true today. 100%. Okay, open, wait, all in. All in, okay. Prediction, maybe. Yeah, for sure. I think that AI agents today in the enterprise do not touch as many product services as they can.
- 17:49
they're mostly web-based today i think that the consumer and small business world has shown that ai agents are going to continue expanding to product surfaces to expect like any single surface you have today to be able to interact with your core ai agents whether if it's teams whether if it's asana whether if it's you know confluence whatever you're working with being able to trigger them from there and expect them to be like always active there i would also expect the agents to become more proactive over time i think today like you know we have like images of kind of like glimpses of proactivity to all of them through OpenClaw.
- 18:18
But I think the market hasn't figured out like the best hardness for proactivity in the market today. And I think it's our job as, you know, kind of like these AI agent hardness providers to like get it to a point where like, it truly can like monitor the situation of how your company is operating. And, you know, proactively suggest actions, suggest next steps. Proactively take actions for you when needed.
- 18:39
Yeah, or it's not so reactive. It's just going to be proactive. Very much. So I think that that's going to be a big change for the way that we don't probably agents we have a bit of productivity today like open class to be proactive music to be proactive but yeah there's opportunity i want to to a point where like truly wakes up and tells me hey i realize that you have like you know 300 spam emails today here's how we can provide shareholder value ah literally yeah literally by the way i was surfing online i found this guy i just sent him an email i think he will be well hey i just found this guy he's looking for a job i reached out to him i think he'd be a perfect designer for your company all that but