🧠 Food for thought

Implications, context, and why it matters.

This survey sets up the issue OutSystems says it can fix

• OutSystems shared the survey results on April 7, 2026, one week after it announced “Agentic Systems Engineering” on March 31 1.
• OutSystems says the approach tackles AI sprawl through a managed platform that helps organizations oversee many separate AI agents 2.
• The approach relies on an “Enterprise Context Graph,” a central map of company systems, data, and rules meant to keep control in one place and maintain a consistent architecture 2.
• CEO Woodson Martin leads the effort. He is a former Salesforce executive who became CEO in May 2025 after OutSystems said it passed 500 million euros (US$580 million) in revenue 3.

AI sprawl is changing developer work and the race for enterprise oversight

• OutSystems says reducing AI sprawl shifts software developers from coding tasks to “agentic system engineers” who coordinate AI tools and protect architectural integrity 4.
• The company is also competing to act as the governance layer for enterprise AI. OutSystems says its approach works with third-party agentic coding tools like Claude Code, Anthropic’s coding assistant, and Cursor, an AI-powered code editor 2.
• A need for a control plane, a central system for managing and coordinating AI tools, gets clearer in a Gartner projection. Gartner expects software defects to rise 2,500% by 2028 as prompt-to-app development scales 4.
• SRS Distribution, a building products distributor, reports faster delivery after adopting the model. It sped up application development by up to 50% using OutSystems Mentor 2.