Research and guides for running agents in production

Field research and practical playbooks on agent governance, cost and infrastructure. Free to download.

Report

The AI Agent Management Gap Report

Confidence in AI agents is outpacing control. New research on where the gap opens and what closes it.

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Report

The State of Agent Governance, 2026 Edition

How teams are governing agents in production today — policy, audit, and the controls that actually get used.

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Guide

AI Infrastructure: Build vs Buy Guide

The cost and complexity of building agent infrastructure in-house, against buying a control plane.

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Guide

Software Factories: Build vs Buy Guide

What it takes to stand up a software factory, and where a platform beats a build.

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Additional resources

Blog - News, engineering and governance writing
Glossary - Plain definitions for agent terminology
Docs (opens in a new tab) - Reference and guides for building on Guild
Community - Where Guild builders talk to each other

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