AvePoint AgentPulse
by AvePoint, Inc.
Multicloud AI agent governance — discover, own, secure and cost-control every agent from one console
AvePoint AgentPulse is a platform-neutral AI agent management and governance console that discovers every agent running across Microsoft 365, Copilot Studio, Microsoft Foundry, Google Vertex AI, Salesforce and other clouds, then applies ownership, lifecycle, data-loss-prevention and cost controls from a single screen. It is aimed at IT and security teams confronting shadow AI and unpredictable per-agent consumption billing.
AvePoint AgentPulse is an AI agent management and governance platform that gives IT and security teams a single, platform-neutral registry of every AI agent operating across an organisation's cloud estate. It is built by AvePoint, a Jersey City-headquartered data-management vendor founded in 2001, listed on NASDAQ as AVPT, with roughly 2,800 employees and more than 28,000 customer organisations and 6,000 channel partners globally. AgentPulse reached general availability as the AgentPulse Command Center on 9 March 2026, moving from private preview to enterprise deployment. Its core premise is that agents do not stay inside one vendor's estate: the product discovers and inventories agents built in Microsoft 365, Copilot Studio, Microsoft Foundry and SharePoint alongside Google Cloud Vertex AI and Google Drive, with documented coverage extending to Power Platform, Salesforce, Dynamics 365, Azure, AWS, Atlassian and other multi-cloud SaaS applications. From that inventory it layers lifecycle control spanning agent creation through retirement, shared ownership and business-context metadata with re-certification workflows, policy enforcement, granular data loss prevention to detect and remediate accidental oversharing, shadow-AI detection for agents provisioned outside sanctioned channels, and cost insight intended to surface pay-per-use consumption before it arrives as a surprise invoice. AvePoint positions it against the specific enterprise problem of agents proliferating faster than the controls around them, with chief architect Jeremy Thake framing the pitch as managing agent risk across tenant and cloud boundaries from one screen, and CTO John Peluso noting that organisations have moved from deciding whether to deploy agents to deploying them responsibly at scale. The company sells into an existing Microsoft 365 governance footprint, which is simultaneously its main distribution advantage and, as equity analysts covering AVPT note, its main strategic risk as Microsoft ships more native agent governance of its own.
The IT or security leader who has just discovered nobody can say how many Copilot Studio and Vertex AI agents exist in the tenant, who owns them, what data they read, or what they cost.
One registry of every agent across Microsoft and Google estates, each with a named owner, a data-exposure assessment and an attributable running cost.
At a Glance
- Category
- Governance & Security
- Pricing
- Contact for pricing, Subscription
- Target Market
- CIOs, CISOs, IT Administrators, FinOps Leaders, Compliance Officers
- Deployment
- Cloud-only, Multi-cloud
- Founded
- 2001
- Headquarters
- Jersey City, New Jersey, United States
- Team Size
- 500+
- Customers
- AvePoint serves 28,000+ organisations and 6,000 channel partners; AgentPulse-specific adoption is not disclosed
Key Features
- ✓Cross-cloud agent discovery and inventory
Consolidates Microsoft 365, Copilot Studio, Foundry, SharePoint, Vertex AI and third-party agents into a single platform-neutral registry.
- ✓Shadow AI detection
Surfaces agents created outside sanctioned channels before they read or expose sensitive corporate data.
- ✓Granular data loss prevention
Identifies and remediates oversharing, including sensitive files exposed to agents through Google Drive and SharePoint.
- ✓Agent lifecycle management
Covers creation, ownership assignment, re-certification and retirement so agents built by departed employees do not persist unowned.
- ✓Cost insight and attribution
Tracks pay-per-use agent consumption to prevent surprise bills and compare an agent's cost against the work it replaces.
- ✓Business context and shared accountability
Captures custom metadata assigning a named owner and stated purpose to every registered agent for audit.
- ✓Cross-tenant policy enforcement
Applies consistent oversight across tenant and cloud boundaries instead of reconciling separate per-platform admin consoles.
Capabilities
Use Cases
- •Pre-audit agent inventory
Enumerate every Copilot Studio and Vertex AI agent across a multi-tenant estate before an internal or regulatory audit.
- •Shadow AI remediation
Find and shut down agents employees built without IT approval that are reading sensitive corporate files.
- •Per-agent cost attribution
Attribute AI consumption cost to a named business owner and stop unbudgeted usage before the invoice lands.
- •Ownership re-certification
Periodically re-confirm agent ownership so agents created by departed employees are retired rather than left orphaned.
- •Oversharing remediation
Fix cases where an agent's grounding data exposes documents to a far wider audience than intended.
Ideal For
Best For
- ✓IT and security teams governing AI agents across both Microsoft and Google estates
- ✓Enterprises already running AvePoint for Microsoft 365 governance, backup or data management
- ✓Organisations facing shadow AI proliferation after a broad Copilot or Copilot Studio rollout
- ✓FinOps teams that need per-agent cost attribution for consumption-priced AI
- ✓Regulated firms that need an auditable agent inventory with named owners and re-certification
Not Ideal For
- ✗Teams whose agents run on custom or self-hosted stacks outside the supported SaaS and hyperscaler connectors — anything AgentPulse cannot connect to stays invisible, which defeats the purpose of a registry
- ✗Buyers who need transparent list pricing: AvePoint publishes no tiers, no per-agent rate and no billing model, routing everything through enterprise sales
- ✗Single-platform Microsoft shops that may be adequately served by Microsoft's own native agent governance at lower incremental cost
- ✗Small and mid-sized businesses — both the product and AvePoint's commercial motion are built around enterprise-scale multi-tenant estates
Deployment
Market & Ratings
AvePoint serves 28,000+ organisations and 6,000 channel partners; AgentPulse-specific adoption is not disclosed
Market Analysis
Pros
- ✓Genuinely platform-neutral: covers Google Vertex AI and Google Drive alongside Microsoft, which single-vendor agent governance tools do not
- ✓Backed by an established public company with 28,000+ customers and existing tenant-level access, so deployment rides on relationships already in place
- ✓Combines inventory, data loss prevention, lifecycle management and cost attribution in one console rather than requiring three separate tools
- ✓A free trial is offered, which is uncommon for enterprise governance products and lets a team size the problem before negotiating
Cons
- ✗No published pricing at all — no tiers, no per-agent rate, no billing model, enterprise sales conversations only, which makes budgeting and comparison impossible up front
- ✗There is no independent review coverage of AgentPulse itself; G2's 4.5/5 across roughly 120 reviews belongs to the broader AvePoint Confidence Platform, not this product
- ✗Reviewers of AvePoint's wider platform repeatedly cite slow support response times, call connectivity problems and sluggish data retrieval performance
- ✗The same reviews flag incomplete API coverage — 'there aren't APIs available for everything the platform can do' — which matters if agent inventory data needs to reach a SIEM or CMDB
- ✗Structural risk that Microsoft absorbs this functionality natively: equity analysts covering AVPT name tightening native Microsoft features as a key headwind
Pricing
Free trial
$0
- ✓Self-service trial via the agentic AI governance page
- ✓Agent discovery and inventory
- ✓Initial risk visibility
AgentPulse Command Center
Contact for pricing
- ✓Multicloud agent discovery across Microsoft and Google
- ✓Shadow AI detection
- ✓Granular data loss prevention
- ✓Lifecycle and re-certification workflows
- ✓Cost insight and attribution
AvePoint publishes no pricing for AgentPulse — no tiers, no per-agent or per-seat rate and no billing model are disclosed, so every deal runs through enterprise sales and in practice is likely bundled into a broader AvePoint Confidence Platform agreement. A free trial is available from the agentic AI governance page, which at least lets a team size their own agent inventory before committing to a contract negotiation.
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