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XMPro Named as a Sample Vendor for Agent Orchestration category in the Gartner® Hype Cycle™ for IT Operations, 2026
XMPro APEX is the unified control plane for industrial agentic operations. Named as a Sample Vendor for Agent Orchestration in the Gartner Hype Cycle for IT Operations, 2026, published 24 June 2026.
Wouter Beneke
An Ontology Is Not a Graph Database
Why industrial context needs a system of fit-for-purpose data stores, standardized and governed, before an agent can act on it safely.
Pieter van Schalkwyk
Who Owns Your Context Layer?
France's intelligence agency dropped a platform it could not itself turn off. Any operator building an industrial context layer faces the same exposure, and the consolidation into OEM stacks makes it urgent. The procurement question has changed from which platform has the best features to: whatever happens to this vendor, what do I still own?
Pieter van Schalkwyk
XMPro Named as a Sample Vendor for Multiagent Systems category in the Gartner® Hype Cycle™ for AI in Oil and Gas, 2026
XMPro Multi-Agent Generative Systems (MAGS) is the centrally-planned, physics-grounded operating layer for upstream, midstream, and downstream operations. Named as a Sample Vendor for Multiagent Systems in the Gartner Hype Cycle for AI in Oil and Gas, 2026, published 24 June 2026.
Wouter Beneke
How Do Agents Make Decisions Under Uncertainty?
An XMPro technical white paper. The decision happens outside the model, in a decision layer — how an operator agent decides under uncertainty on a Sequential Decision Analytics foundation, and why the decision still reproduces exactly.
Pieter van Schalkwyk
Agentic Operations in Action: Depropaniser Optimization Example
An approved-access walkthrough of XMPro agentic operations in an industrial setting.
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XMPro Named as a Sample Vendor for Agentic AI category in the Gartner® Hype Cycle™ for Cloud Computing, 2026
XMPro, the agentic operations platform for asset-intensive and mission-critical industries, today announced it has been named as a Sample Vendor for Agentic AI in the Gartner Hype Cycle for Cloud Computing, 2026, published 12 June 2026.
Wouter Beneke
When an AI Agent Makes the Call, Can You Trust It? The 4 Questions We Get Asked Most
When an AI agent makes an operational decision, can you trust it? It's the question we get asked most — and most "agentic AI" can't answer it. This is a worked example of XMPro MAGS (Multi-Agent Generative Systems), applied to a 3D-printing defect test-bed and built around the four questions that…
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XMPro Named as a Sample Vendor in Two Categories of the Gartner® Hype Cycle™ for AI in ITSM, 2026
XMPro, the agentic operations platform for asset-intensive and mission-critical industries, today announced it has been named as a Sample Vendor in two categories of the 2026 Gartner Hype Cycle for AI in ITSM, published 2 June 2026: Agent Orchestration and Agentic AI.
Wouter Beneke
288 Years of Research Behind MAGS
The oldest idea in the MAGS codebase was published in 1738. A tour of the 288-year research lineage built into MAGS — every architectural layer traced to the published work it implements, cited at the line of code.
Pieter van Schalkwyk
XMPro Named as a Sample Vendor for Agentic AI in the Gartner® Hype Cycle™ for AI in Application Integration and Architecture, 2026
XMPro, the agentic operations platform for asset-intensive and mission-critical industries, today announced it has been named as a Sample Vendor for Agentic AI in the Gartner Hype Cycle for AI in Application Integration and Architecture, 2026, published 3 June 2026.
Wouter Beneke
XMPro Named as a Sample Vendor for Expert AI Agents category in the 2026 Gartner® Emerging Tech Impact Radar: Disruptive Technologies on the Far Horizon
XMPro, the Agentic Operations platform for asset-intensive and mission-critical industries, today announced it has been named as a Sample Vendor for Expert AI Agents in the 2026 Gartner Emerging Tech Impact Radar: Disruptive Technologies on the Far Horizon, published 2 June 2026.
Wouter Beneke
The Industrial AI Agent Manifesto
The Digital Twin Consortium has published the Industrial AI Agent Manifesto — a governance framework for deploying AI agents in safety-critical industrial environments. Ten engineering laws for trustworthy autonomous operations.
Pieter van Schalkwyk