Scott Buchanan

CMO

Scott Buchanan is the Chief Marketing Officer at Stacklok, where he leads the go-to-market effort to bring the company's enterprise MCP platform to market. Scott leads Stacklok's first-party research efforts, quantifying enterprise progress towards being MCP-native and capturing core use cases. Scott has held marketing leadership roles at Heptio, Forter, VMware and more, and has a knack for distilling highly technical concepts into simple ideas.

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September 15, 2026

Best Agent Harnesses for Enterprise AI in 2026

An agent harness is the runtime layer that actually runs your agent: it drives the loop that calls the model, dispatches tool calls, executes code, and decides what an agent …

August 24, 2026

How to choose an agent harness

Choose an agent harness by answering five questions in order: where does enforcement live, where does your data run, can you inspect the control plane, can you compose it to …

July 30, 2026

Observer or governor? Why your AI control plane needs identity-first controls

Your API gateway can tell you an agent made a call. Your directory can tell you the agent authenticated. Neither can tell you what the agent did once it was …

July 30, 2026

The two-door problem: splitting governance across an MCP gateway and an LLM gateway leaves a gap

An agent does two things that need governing: it calls models and it invokes tools. Most enterprises end up buying one vendor to watch the model calls and another to …

July 30, 2026

Is your AI control plane Kubernetes-native or Kubernetes-compatible? What the difference costs you

Most AI platforms claim to work with Kubernetes. Far fewer are actually built out of it, and the gap between those two claims shows up in your operating bill, your …

July 30, 2026

Who actually needs a self-hosted AI control plane?

Every enterprise rolling out AI agents eventually asks the same question: where does the control plane run? The answer depends on your data, your regulators, and how much of your …