
OpenAI launches Presence to operationalize AI agents in enterprise workflows
On July 22, 2026, OpenAI introduced Presence, an enterprise product for deploying AI agents across customer-facing and internal workflows, with built‑in tools for connecting to company systems, enforcing policies, evaluating performance, and managing change after launch.
Use Presence or a comparable agent platform as the backbone for your first AI MVP, focusing on one or two high-friction workflows (support triage, sales engineering, internal knowledge search) where agents can safely take constrained actions and where policy controls are critical.
highIf your teams continue to prototype agents in ad‑hoc notebooks and scripts, you will end up with shadow AI operations that are impossible to monitor, govern, or scale under emerging regulatory expectations.
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