Atlassian Fuses the Agent Work Surface, Workflow, and Control Plane Into Jira

Mitch Ashley, VP and Practice Lead at Futurum, shares his insights on how Atlassian fused the agent work surface, workflow, and control plane into Jira, with Teamwork Graph as the source of truth, binding all three.
NVIDIA’s Open Secure AI Alliance Bets Open Models Beat Closed Ones on Defense

Futurum’s Nick Patience, Fernando Montenegro, and Mitch Ashley unpack NVIDIA’s Open Secure AI Alliance and why the labs missing from it may matter more than the 35 that joined.
So This Is How AIs Attack: Observations From the OpenAI & Hugging Face Incident

Fernando Montenegro and Mitch Ashley, VPs at Futurum, read the OpenAI and Hugging Face agentic incident as a live test of enterprise readiness to detect and contain AI agents that go off-goal at machine speed.
The AI Stack: How Vendors Are Composing AI Strategy

Futurum’s Mitch Ashley shares insights on the durable eight-layer AI stack and six emerging archetypes that help vendors and decision-makers interpret AI strategy commitments in a rapidly evolving market.
Selling Agent Provenance to the CIO: Entire Changes Who Signs

Futurum stakes a position on Entire’s distributed Git launch: agent provenance is the control point, the mirror network is the wedge, and the decision moves to the CIO. The analysis maps displacement, threats, and what vendors must bring to the sale.
Software Lifecycle Engineering Market to Reach $226 Billion by 2030 as Enterprise Hands AI the Keyboard Before the Guardrails

Futurum’s 2H 2026 Software Lifecycle Engineering research sizes the market at $226 billion by 2030 and finds AI now runs the majority of the software lifecycle, while 75% of organizations report AI-contributed production incidents.
Claude Fable 5 Is Most Consequential Where Software Is Built

Mitch Ashley, VP and Practice Lead for AI-Native Software Engineering at Futurum, shares his insights on why Claude Fable 5 is most consequential for software engineering and development pipelines.
Microsoft Build 2026 – The Platform, Integration Plane, and Developer Surface

Futurum Analysts Ashley, Kirkpatrick, Patience, and Shimmin analyze Microsoft Build 2026 across models, agents, data intelligence, governance, and silicon as Microsoft positions itself as the platform, the integration plane, and the developer surface.
IBM and Red Hat Bet $5B on Curating the Open Source Supply Chain

Mitch Ashley, VP and Practice Lead for Software Lifecycle Engineering at Futurum, shares his insights on IBM and Red Hat’s $5 billion Project Lightwell and what a curated open source supply chain means for enterprises.
Can Google’s AI Threat Defense Set the Pace for Enterprise Cyber Defense?

Fernando Montenegro and Mitch Ashley, VPs at Futurum, analyze Google Cloud’s Google AI Threat Defense, an autonomous platform uniting Wiz, Mandiant, CodeMender, and Gemini to automate vulnerability discovery and remediation at machine speed.
Google I/O: Did Google Just Ship the Full AI Stack?

Mitch Ashley, VP and Practice Lead at Futurum, shares his analysis of whether Google just shipped the AI full stack at I/O 2026 and where the architectural gap remains.
Bedrock Advanced Prompt Optimization Cuts the Cost of Model Switching

Mitch Ashley, VP and Practice Lead at Futurum, shares his insights on how Amazon Bedrock Advanced Prompt Optimization converts model switching from a manual project into a configuration choice.
