AvePoint

I spent a lot more time creating documents.

When I worked for AvePoint, I did a workshop for the US Army.

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And for Lon Lane, the sales guy.

It knows to search learn.microsoft.com to find documentation on the major topics.

It pulls all that together in between the transcript, which replaces the need for my memory to be so, well, I've got a terrible memory.

It's really completely changed how I do the menial parts of my job so I can spend more time either tinkering, which I had no time to do when I was at AvePoint because that's when Copilot became a thing for me is when I switched to Microsoft.

But I now have time to tinker, like so much time.

The bigger question is whether extraordinary growth can eventually justify extraordinary valuations.

Moving from investment risks to business protection, AvePoint has introduced a new platform designed to help organizations secure and govern AI across multiple providers and cloud environments.

The platform focuses on four key areas, observing AI activity, protecting sensitive business data, governing AI agents, and optimizing spending.

The need for these controls is becoming increasingly clear.

According to AvePoint's 2026 State of AI report, 88.4% of organizations experienced at least one AI agent-related security incident during the previous 12 months.

As businesses introduce more AI agents into their daily operations, tracking what those systems can access and what actions they perform becomes much more complicated.

AvePoint's new tools aim to help organizations discover AI agents and models, identify unauthorized AI activity, monitor access to sensitive information, and maintain records that support audits and accountability.

The company is also addressing another growing concern.

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... approach to solving those problems? Because if you go to Orchestry and Renkor and, uh, and SysKit and AvePoint and there's a lot of the language that's the same but completely different approaches-

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... and, and, uh, and focus areas for each of their solutions.

Um, you know, back in the day you'd have the conversation with people that, yes, everyone has content, but that doesn't mean all your content goes to SharePoint.

It's not your answer for everything.

AI and agents isn't going to be your answer for everything, and the Orchestry, AvePoint, Renkor, CoreView, right, you, you pick the solution that meets those needs the best, 100%.

And cultural fit-