The agent evaluation gap: Enterprise AI organizations have a reality-alignment problem, not a coverage problem — and most are shipping to production anyway

Enterprise AI adoption is currently plagued by an 'evaluation gap,' where AI agents pass internal tests but fail in real-world production scenarios. With 66% of organizations moving toward fully automated, zero-human-in-the-loop deployments, financial advisors should be cautious about relying on AI tools that lack robust, human-verified oversight, as current automated testing methods are widely considered unreliable.