--- title: Tackling agent sprawl across the enterprise | daily.dev description: Enterprises face 'agent sprawl' as AI agents multiply without shared ownership or oversight. Gartner projects the average global Fortune 500 enterprise will... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/tackling-agent-sprawl-across-the-enterprise-xwftsy3te twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Tackling agent sprawl across the enterprise | daily.dev og:description: Enterprises face 'agent sprawl' as AI agents multiply without shared ownership or oversight. Gartner projects the average global Fortune 500 enterprise will... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/tackling-agent-sprawl-across-the-enterprise-xwftsy3te og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/XwfTsY3TE.png og:image:alt: Tackling agent sprawl across the enterprise og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Tackling agent sprawl across the enterprise **[Atlassian](https://daily.dev/sources/atlassian)** · 9 min read · 1 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary Enterprises face 'agent sprawl' as AI agents multiply without shared ownership or oversight. Gartner projects the average global Fortune 500 enterprise will have over 150,000 agents in use by 2028, yet only 13% of organizations believe they have the right governance in place. Atlassian argues governance is the way to address it, with permission inheritance, agent-level controls, and visibility tools like Agent Insights in Studio. It cites State of Teams 2026 data stating that teams with more optimized foundations are 7.3x more likely to report higher AI ROI, and a DocuSign case where ticket drafting time dropped from approximately 20 minutes to 5 minutes using its Teamwork Collection. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Questions this post answers ### what is AI agent sprawl in an enterprise context Agent sprawl is when unapproved AI agents use existing data and permissions to take actions on a user's behalf, making them hard to detect, unlike shadow IT which involves unapproved standalone tools. Gartner projects the average Fortune 500 enterprise will have over 150,000 agents in use by 2028, yet only 13% of organizations believe they have proper governance in place today. _Teams weighing how to control AI agent access can track governance approaches like this on daily.dev._ ### how much does Atlassian's Teamwork Graph improve AI output accuracy Using the Teamwork Graph for context improves AI output accuracy by up to 44% while using up to 48% fewer AI tokens, according to Atlassian. This comes from connecting Jira, Confluence, Loom, Rovo, and platform apps so agents draw on shared organizational context rather than operating in isolation. _Engineers evaluating AI context systems for accuracy and token cost follow benchmarks like this on daily.dev._ ### what results did DocuSign see from using governed AI agents in Jira and Confluence DocuSign cut Jira ticket drafting time from about 20 minutes to 5 minutes (75% faster) and reduced backlog grooming sessions from 2 hours to 30 minutes. A specialized Zephyr Tests Coach agent also recovered more than 10 hours of weekly engineering capacity for one QA team, with standardized agents deployed safely across over 100 Confluence spaces. _Teams building a business case for AI agent rollouts can compare real adoption results on daily.dev._ ## Similar posts on daily.dev - [Don’t Build AI Governance From Scratch. 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