Every enterprise that switches on Microsoft Copilot and agent-building tools eventually asks the same question: who built all these things, what do they touch, and who is responsible when one goes wrong? Rencore, a Munich-based ISV founded in 2009, has turned that question into a product category.
From code governance to AI governance
Rencore started by scanning SharePoint customizations for risky code. As Microsoft's platform grew, the company followed the sprawl: Power Apps, Power Automate flows, Teams, Azure resources, and now Copilot agents. Its platform inventories what exists across a tenant, maps who owns it, evaluates risk, and automates lifecycle actions like archiving what nobody uses.
The agent era raises the stakes. A citizen-built Power App that breaks is a nuisance. An agent with access to business data that behaves unexpectedly is a security event. Rencore's argument is that organizations cannot govern what they cannot see, and most tenants contain thousands of artifacts nobody has cataloged.
Governance without the brake pedal
The company is deliberate about framing governance as an enabler. Blocking citizen development drives it underground; shadow IT simply moves to personal accounts. Rencore's model instead pairs visibility with policy automation, letting organizations set guardrails, and then approve, monitor, and retire solutions at scale rather than reviewing each one by hand.
That framing lands with a specific buyer: the Microsoft 365 platform owner caught between a board that wants AI adoption numbers and a security team that wants nothing deployed without review. Tooling that satisfies both is scarce.
The market question
Microsoft ships its own admin and governance capabilities, and every Rencore prospect asks why the native tools are not enough. The company's answer is coverage and neutrality: one inventory across services that Microsoft's own consoles treat separately, with risk assessment that does not depend on the vendor grading its own homework. It is the classic third-party management vendor position, and it has sustained companies through every previous platform wave.
With EU AI Act obligations phasing in and auditors starting to ask for agent inventories, Rencore's bet is that AI governance stops being optional paperwork and becomes a compliance requirement with a deadline attached.