the Autonomous Enterprise: Simulation, Digital Twins, and Trust Infrastructure in Age of Agentic AI

Autonomous enterprises now hand real decisions to AI systems and agents that act faster than people can watch. The Autonomous Enterprise is the senior leader's guide to keeping such an institution governable. A companion to The Agentic Enterprise, this book is about staying in command once the AI is acting. It shows how runtime governance watches systems as they act, how simulation and digital twins rehearse failure before it happens, and how continuous assurance, evidence, and governable recovery hold trust under stress. Written for CIOs, CISOs, CTOs, enterprise architects, risk and audit leaders, boards, and regulators, it turns a fast-moving subject into durable, practical judgment, grounded throughout in a single running example: Mithras Bank. Topics include runtime governance and the enterprise control plane, simulation and governance digital twins, AI assurance infrastructure, auditability and evidence, regulatory supervision, ecosystem and third-party autonomy, failure modes, and crisis response and recovery.