Welcome to the March 2026 edition of the Data Intelligence Dispatch. If February was about the hype of “agentic AI,” March has been about the sobering reality of how we actually govern it. We’ve seen a massive shift this month: organizations are moving away from manual, “check-the-box” stewardship toward autonomous, outcome-based systems. From the White House releasing a national framework to major industry players like Collibra and Alation automating the very fabric of metadata, the message is clear: if your data isn’t agent-ready, your business isn’t AI-ready.