Aanchal Gupta, Founder, Agents Stack
Agents Stack positions itself as an advisory board for the C-suite at a time when AI is reshaping how enterprises operate. Founded in February 2025 by Aanchal Gupta, the consultancy works with senior leaders navigating AI transformation, offering expertise across AI, digital transformation, cybersecurity, sustainability, ethics, and governance.
Rather than pushing tools, Agents Stack focuses on tightly defined, strongly guardrailed use cases designed to deliver measurable outcomes. The company works with clients across banking, financial services and insurance, manufacturing, maritime and real estate, among others.
Its premise is straightforward: efficiency gains from AI are only sustainable when governance comes first.
“When you deploy AI, how do you make sure that it’s secure and has ethical practices and governance built into it by design?” Gupta said in a call with e27.
For Agents Stack, governance is not an afterthought but the foundation upon which digital efficiency is built. It works closely with customers not only on strategy but also on change management and implementation, helping organisations embed AI responsibly within their operations.
Before formally launching, Gupta spent much of 2025 meeting more than 1,000 C-level executives across the Philippines, Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand, the Middle East, Europe, and India. The objective was not to pitch, but to listen.
The most consistent feedback was not a lack of tools, but too many of them. Executives cited an overload of cybersecurity products and information, coupled with limited visibility over actual risk exposure. What they sought was a trusted partner that could consolidate and simplify the landscape, cut through vendor noise and provide clear oversight of cyber threats. That insight now shapes the company’s strategic direction.
In 2026, Agents Stack’s priorities centre on critical infrastructure, operations and supply chain risk — areas Gupta sees as the most pressing vulnerabilities in the coming year. Global expansion is also high on the agenda, alongside helping customers consolidate vendors to reduce complexity and cost.
Geographically, the company plans to extend its footprint into the Middle East, the European Union, Japan, South Korea and Africa. Its service scope is expanding in parallel, with end-to-end risk advisory spanning climate and nature risk, operations risk, supply chain risk and AI risk.
The emphasis on operations technology and supply chain exposure reflects a broader shift in the cybersecurity landscape. As hardware and software become more tightly integrated in sectors such as energy, railways and defence, the attack surface widens.
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According to Gupta, operations and supply chain risk in critical infrastructure will be among the most significant threat vectors in 2026, particularly as AI-driven systems become more prevalent.
In the Asia Pacific, governments and regulators are sharpening their focus on these vulnerabilities. Policies targeting data protection, operational resilience and supply chain transparency are gaining traction. Gupta expects regulatory attention on operations and supply chain risk to intensify, given the growing exposure created by digital transformation.
At the same time, she argues that long-term resilience will depend on capacity building. Agents Stack is prioritising public-private-education integration across Asia Pacific to strengthen talent pipelines and foster collaboration. With limited cybersecurity talent and rising costs, enterprises cannot address every risk simultaneously. Strategic prioritisation is essential.
As generative AI and automation accelerate, Gupta advises organisations to adopt a calculated approach. Security leaders must prioritise high-risk parameters and accept that not every vulnerability can be mitigated at once. “There is too much noise with a lot of tools and vendors on data visibility and protection,” she said. What matters is meaningful coverage of the most critical risks.
In an environment defined by rapid technological change and regulatory complexity, Agents Stack is positioning itself as a steady hand for the C-suite — one that combines governance by design with practical risk prioritisation. As it expands globally in 2026, the company’s bet is that clarity, consolidation and trust will matter more than ever in the age of AI-driven transformation.
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