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BUYER GUIDE

Where should AI agent work actually live?

The market is converging on the same words. The products still make different architectural bets. Before comparing logos, decide which layer you need to own.

FOUR COMMON APPROACHES

Similar language. Different systems of record.

Context + tool gateway

Govern what execution clients can know and use.

Products such as Wato center shared memory, approved tools and reusable operating context that multiple AI clients can access through a governed gateway.

AI workforce product

Make the AI worker the primary managed object.

Tenor describes workers with jobs, persistent context, budgets, guardrails and measurable outcomes, with humans managing recurring work through a workforce model.

Integrated agent platform

Build, run, evaluate and optimize on one stack.

Relevance AI combines agent building, tools, knowledge, integrations, orchestration, evals, tracing and cross-provider model selection inside one platform.

Enterprise control plane

Observe, govern and secure agents across the organization.

Microsoft Agent 365 is positioned as a control plane for registry, observability, governance and security across Microsoft, partner, local and other registered agents.

AGENTIFY'S BET

Keep the organizational work outside the execution client.

Agentify is designed around the work surrounding an agent: persistent application state, assignments, bounded capabilities, execution attempts, human decisions and evidence from the systems where the work lands.

That makes the model or runtime an execution component rather than the only place where the organization's memory of the work exists.

The work—not the transcript—is the source of truth.

This is not a claim that Agentify replaces every other layer. A context gateway, identity/control plane or specialized agent platform can be complementary when it solves a different problem.

HOW TO CHOOSE

Start with the problem you actually have.

  • 01

    Your clients already work; they need shared governed context.

    Start with a context/tool gateway such as Wato.

  • 02

    You want an opinionated AI-labor operating model.

    Evaluate a workforce product such as Tenor.

  • 03

    You want one vendor for builder, runtime, evals and integrations.

    Evaluate an integrated platform such as Relevance AI.

  • 04

    Your security team needs centralized agent inventory and governance.

    Evaluate an enterprise control plane such as Microsoft Agent 365, especially in a Microsoft-heavy environment.

  • 05

    You need the work itself to remain durable outside the runtime.

    That is the problem Agentify is built around.

COMPARE THE ADJACENT PRODUCTS

Now compare the actual boundaries.

PRIMARY SOURCES

What this guide is based on.

Claims reverified · August 26, 2026. Products change quickly; source links are included so buyers can verify the current state directly.