Schneider Electric Deploys 60+ AI Agents Across Operations

Schneider Electric's internal AI Hub now runs 350 people supporting more than 60 agents across the company's critical infrastructure business. That number alone marks a shift in how companies in Europe and the Middle East are approaching agent deployment. Instead of shipping one polished chatbot and calling it a strategy, teams are building platforms first, often because they're staring at a dozen scattered proof-of-concept agents built by different business units with no shared way to get any of them into production.

The pattern shows up regardless of how tightly regulated the industry is. Energy companies, telecoms, insurers, banks, retailers: all of them are running into the same wall. Prototyping an agent is easy. Running one reliably, at scale, in front of real customers or real infrastructure, is a different problem entirely, and it demands an operations layer most teams didn't budget for when they built their first demo.

Schneider Electric, monday.com, and Vodafone each hit this wall in their own way and built their way through it. Their approaches differ in the details, but the underlying lessons about observability, tooling discipline, and production monitoring point toward something close to a shared playbook.