Dr. Harish Kotadia Ph.D.

Agentic AI : The End of the Summer Post
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September 28, 2026

Originally published on my blog: https://agenticaiarch.com/agentic-ai-architecture-map/

What is an agentic AI architecture map?

An agentic AI architecture map is one page that files every post by its layer and its roadmap stage. This is my end-of-summer post. Over the last one year I have published 95 posts on agenticaiarch.com, so this agentic AI architecture map is the index I should have built on day one.

You cannot govern what you cannot place. You can place every control on one map.

10 Facts You Wish You Knew Before Building Agentic AI Solution
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August 29, 2026

This article was originally published here: https://agenticaiarch.com/agentic-ai-facts/ It is republished here with permission. Read the original for the latest updates.

AI-Native SDLC Playbook Staged on Agentic AI Roadmap
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August 29, 2026

This article was originally published on agenticaiarch.com: https://agenticaiarch.com/ai-native-sdlc-roadmap/. It is republished here with permission. Read the original for the latest updates.

Managing the Harness Across the Five-Stage Roadmap
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August 28, 2026

This blog post was originally published here: https://agenticaiarch.com/agentic-ai-governance-harness/

Agentic AI Rewires IT Services Firms
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August 22, 2026

Originally published on my blog site here: https://agenticaiarch.com/agentic-ai-it-services-shakeout/

The CxO power shakeout over agentic AI will force IT services and consulting companies to rebuild their sales, marketing, and delivery model around business executives — CFOs, COOs, CMOs — instead of the CIO and CTO organizations they have sold to for thirty years, and to staff those accounts with deep domain experts rather than technology professionals. That is the argument of this post, and I will make it bluntly: the firms that keep running the CIO playbook will watch their accounts get taken by firms that learned to sit in the CFO’s office and talk about cost per completed task.

IT Services Pricing: From Billable Hours to Billable Decisions
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August 13, 2026

This article was originally published on my site: https://agenticaiarch.com/price-per-decision-agentic-ai-it-services-pricing/

A price-per-decision model charges for a completed unit of agentic work — a resolved case, a closed loop — instead of the hours it took a person to get there or the seats a company happened to buy. That’s the short version. The longer version: this isn’t really a pricing change. It’s an admission that the thing being sold has changed, and most of the industry hasn’t said so out loud yet.

Why I Wrote Agentic AI Book Earned Autonomy
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August 01, 2026

I wrote Earned Autonomy because enterprise agentic AI has no shared instrument for answering the only question that matters at the point of deployment: how much autonomy has this agent actually earned? The book supplies one. It is a governance methodology built around a 0–1000 score across five pillars and twenty criteria that turns an agent's authority from a claim into a measurement a risk committee can read, challenge and revoke.

Agentic AI Just Undid 30 Years of IT Discipline
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July 26, 2026

Originally published by Dr. Harish Kotadia, Ph.D. on AgenticAIArch.com: https://agenticaiarch.com/agentic-ai-just-undid-30-years-of-it-discipline/

Vibe coding is having its moment. But last July during a Vibe coding event, an AI agent deleted a live production database during a declared code freeze, then told its user that rollback was impossible. It wasn’t.

That is not a model failure. It is a missing dev/prod boundary, a missing approval gate and a missing rollback path — three controls IT shipped way back in the 1990s.

Here are ten controls Agentic AI quietly undid, that enterprise IT spent thirty years getting right.

What Is Agentic AI Technology? A Practitioner’s Field Map of the Enterprise Stack
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July 19, 2026

“Agentic AI technology is the software stack that lets an enterprise hand a system an outcome to achieve rather than a script to execute”  © Dr. Harish Kotadia, 2026 — the model, memory, tools, identity, guardrails, and observability that turn a goal into governed, auditable action.

Token Troubles: Five Enterprises That Learned the Hard Way
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July 17, 2026

That is the paradox defining agentic AI economics in 2026, and it is not a pricing problem. It is an architecture problem. A chatbot answers a question with one inference call. An agent decomposes a task, selects tools, calls sub-agents, validates outputs, retries on failure — and every one of those steps burns tokens. A leading industry analyst firm's March 2026 analysis found agentic workflows consume 5 to 30 times more tokens per task than a standard chatbot query. Some research puts the multiplier far higher.

Why Agentic AI Budgets Are Surging in 2026 — and the Fix
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July 13, 2026

Agentic AI budgets are breaking in 2026, and not because the models are bad. They are breaking because enterprises are deploying agents without mapping token spend to projects and outcomes. Agentic AI cost attribution is the practice of tagging every token an agent consumes to a named project, workf

Why I Wrote This Book on Agentic AI
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July 12, 2026

Over the past eight months, I have had the opportunity to speak with senior technology professionals at Fortune 500 companies while evangelizing agentic AI solutions. What I realized surprised me: many of them were not doing agentic AI right. Not because of lack of talent or budget, but because they

Two Agentic AI Deployments, One Contained, One Catastrophic
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July 07, 2026

The Difference Was Operational Risk Management Summary: Of the two 2025 agentic AI coding deployments compared here, one sits at Stage 3, Governed, on my Agentic AI Roadmap, and one operated at Stage 2, Piloted, while being marketed as Stage 5, Autonomous. The gap between them was not model capabili

11 OpenAI Agentic AI Case Studies Analyzed and Mapped
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July 06, 2026

Quick answer Of the 11 OpenAI case studies analyzed here: 1 sits at Prompted, 3 at Piloted, 3 at Governed, 3 at Assured, and 1 at Autonomous. This is the most evenly distributed maturity spread across OpenAI, AWS, and Claude vendor case studies analyzed in this series. Companies that reach Assured o

Agentic AI Autonomy Trap: Healthcare vs Fintech Case Study
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July 05, 2026

Two Agentic AI Case Studies – One Success, One Reversal And What Separates Them I have spent this year documenting agentic AI wins. This edition is different. I want to put a genuine success story next to a genuine reversal, side by side, because the gap between them is not about the technolog

Agentic AI’s Autonomy Trap – A Case Study
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July 05, 2026

I have spent this year writing about agentic AI wins across banking, healthcare, and manufacturing. A European fintech company is the case I keep coming back to for a different reason. It is the clearest public record of a company that pushed straight past Governed toward a claimed Autonomous, skipp

Agentic AI in Healthcare: The Prior Authorization Case Study
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July 04, 2026

For as long as I have been building agentic AI systems, I have heard a version of the same objection when the conversation turns to healthcare. Protected health information cannot touch an AI agent, they say. The liability is too high, the compliance burden too strict, the margin for a confident wro

Agentic AI in Regulated Industries: Case Studies Proving Skeptics Wrong
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July 03, 2026

The ABA Banking Journal recently reported on the broader shift now underway across financial services, from Anthropic’s ten ready-to-run agent templates for pitchbooks, KYC screening, and month-end close, to a major wealth management firm’s advisor note-taking agent, to another wealth ma

The Agentic AI Roadmap Stage Behind Tesla Robotaxi Headline
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July 03, 2026

Tesla turned on unsupervised Robotaxi service in Miami. No safety monitor in the seat, live in a geofenced zone covering West Miami, Doral, and Coral Gables. Florida is now the first state outside Texas to get it, and Miami is the fourth city in the network after Austin, Dallas, and Houston. I read

From Siebel to Agentic AI: How Enterprise Data Finally Got Free
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June 29, 2026

I have spent over twenty years installing software so that business people could look at their own customer data. I mean that literally. Some of my earliest projects involved putting a CRM client on individual desktops, one machine at a time, before a salesperson could see a single account they already owned. That should sound strange to you. It took me a long time to find it strange too.

11 AWS Agentic AI Case Studies Analyzed and Mapped
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June 28, 2026

I spent this weekend going through the AWS Solutions Library and its customer success stories, hunting for the deployments that have actually shipped. I was specifically interested in AWS agentic AI case studies—not the polished demos, but the ones running in production with real numbers attached to them.

Agentic AI Assurance Is Now a Market, for REAL
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June 26, 2026

Something new is showing up in enterprise AI budgets. Not agents. The audit of agents.

A market is forming around agent assurance. Independent third-party review. Runtime monitoring. Even guardian agents whose only job is to watch other agents and rein them in when they drift.

The Agentic AI Roadmap: 5 Levels From Prompted to Autonomous
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June 26, 2026

Instructions in, results out. That was IT. Intent in, outcomes out. That is agentic AI. But an organization does not make that turn all at once. It matures into it. Forty years ago, software engineering needed a way to talk about that maturity and the Capability Maturity Model gave it five honest levels, from ad hoc to optimizing.

Who Was That? The Agent Identity Question Nobody Can Answer
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June 25, 2026

For most enterprises, there is no good answer. In a 2026 survey the Cloud Security Alliance ran with Aembit, more than two-thirds of organizations could not clearly distinguish an action taken by an AI agent from one taken by a human. Sixty-eight percent. The agent does the work, and the log records a person. That is not a reporting gap. It is an accountability gap, and accountability is the whole game in a regulated workflow.

Agentic AI Reality Check: The 40% That Will Fail
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June 24, 2026

The loudest number in agentic AI right now is a warning. Gartner says more than 40 percent of agentic AI projects will be canceled by the end of 2027. The reasons are not exotic. Escalating costs. Unclear business value. Risk controls that were never built. The same research calls out "agent washing," and estimates that only about 130 of the thousands of vendors claiming to sell agents actually do.

Agentic AI Agent-to-Agent Trust: Decision, Not Handoff
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September 30, 2026

What is agentic AI agent-to-agent trust, and why does the A2A protocol not settle it?

You can read more here: https://agenticaiarch.com/agentic-ai-agent-to-agent-trust/

That is the question this edition answers. I published the full post on it yesterday. Here is what it covers, and where the post goes further than this teaser.

Agentic AI Memory: Note Agent Decided to Keep
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September 30, 2026

It is what an agent carries from one session into the next. Not the context window, which empties when the session ends. The notes and files the agent writes so the next run starts knowing what this one learned. Anthropic calls it structured note-taking. I call it the one layer nobody has fenced yet.

Agentic AI Non-Determinism? Same Task, Different Route
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September 28, 2026

You can read more here: https://agenticaiarch.com/agentic-ai-non-determinism/

What is agentic AI non-determinism?

It is the fact that one prompt, one model, one task, still gives you a different path on every run. But the steps are not the same, and neither are the tool calls. Sometimes even the answer moves. For twenty years, IT testing assumed the same input gives the same output. Non-determinism breaks that assumption at the root, so the test has to change.

Agentic AI: Record It While It Breaks
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September 27, 2026

Full post here: https://agenticaiarch.com/agentic-ai-incident-record/

Who wrote the incident record the last time an agent run failed, and when did they write it?

That is the question this edition sets out to answer. My answer is short. If a person wrote it the next day, you do not have a record. You have a memory with a signature on it.

Agentic AI Escalation Design: Named Human, Not Pause
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September 26, 2026

This newsletter edition is based on my blog post published here: https://agenticaiarch.com/agentic-ai-escalation-design/

Who does your agent call when it is stuck? That is the question this edition sets out to answer, and it is one most teams I meet cannot answer in a single sentence.

Agentic AI Audit Trail: Handoff, not Answer
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September 25, 2026

This edition is based on my new blog post, Agentic AI Audit Trail: Log the Handoff, Not the Answer.

What is an agentic AI audit trail, and why does it break at the handoff? I have sat in reviews where the final answer was fine and the trail was not. This edition is about that gap.

Agentic AI MCP Server Governance? It Is the Door, Not the Call.
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September 24, 2026

Full post: https://agenticaiarch.com/agentic-ai-mcp-server-governance/

The longer versions live on my blog at agenticaiarch.com, where I publish a new post every weekday on one agentic AI governance question, and there is a subscribe box at the end of each post if you would like them in your inbox.

What Is a Rogue AI Agent? Eight Controls Nobody Turned On.
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September 22, 2026

The longer versions live on my blog at https://agenticaiarch.com/ai-agents-going-rogue/ , where I publish a new post every weekday on one agentic AI governance question, and there is a subscribe box at the end of each post if you would like them in your inbox.

Agentic AI SDLC Best Practices
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September 21, 2026

Full post: https://agenticaiarch.com/agentic-ai-sdlc-best-practices/

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Edition 5 asks one question. If the agent writes the code, what does the lifecycle around it have to do before you can leave the room?

Agentic AI Subagent: Second Agent That Never Saw First One
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September 20, 2026

What Is an Agentic AI Subagent? It Is the Second Agent That Never Saw the First One Think.

Full post: https://agenticaiarch.com/agentic-ai-subagents/

Thank you. Edition 28, and nearly a thousand of you read this newsletter now. I did not expect that when I wrote the first one, so thank you for reading and for the comments. So the least I can do is keep every edition short and worth the read.

Agentic AI Egress Allowlist: Network, Not Prompt
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September 19, 2026

Full post: https://agenticaiarch.com/agentic-ai-egress-allowlist/

The longer versions live on my blog at agenticaiarch.com, where I publish a new post every weekday on one agentic AI governance question, and there is a subscribe box at the end of each post if you would like them in your inbox.

What Are Agentic AI Governance Controls?
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September 17, 2026

The longer versions live on my blog at https://agenticaiarch.com/agentic-ai-governance-controls/ where I publish a new post every weekday on one agentic AI governance question, and there is a subscribe box at the end of each post if you would like them in your inbox.

Agentic AI Human-in-the-Loop Gate: Checkpoint on Action, Not Prompt.
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September 16, 2026

The longer versions live on my blog at https://agenticaiarch.com/agentic-ai-human-in-the-loop-gate/ , where I publish a new post every weekday on one agentic AI governance question, and there is a subscribe box at the end of each post if you would like them in your inbox.

What Is Agentic AI Branch Protection? It Is the Merge Gate the Agent Cannot Vote On.
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September 15, 2026

The longer versions live on my blog at Full post: https://agenticaiarch.com/agentic-ai-branch-protection/ where I publish a new post every weekday on one agentic AI governance question, and there is a subscribe box at the end of each post if you would like them in your inbox.

What Is Agentic AI Credential Scoping? It Is One Key, Not Yours.
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September 15, 2026

The longer versions live on my blog at https://agenticaiarch.com/agentic-ai-credential-scoping/ .

An agent runs as somebody, and in most pilots I see that somebody is the developer who started it. So the question this edition answers is simple. Whose keys is your agent holding right now?

How to Secure Agentic AI Systems From Prompt Injection
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September 14, 2026

The longer versions live on my blog at https://agenticaiarch.com/keeping-agentic-ai-systems-safe-from-prompt-injection/, where I publish a new post every weekday on one agentic AI governance question, and there is a subscribe box at the end of each post if you would like them in your inbox.

What Is an Agentic AI Managed Setting? It Is a Rule the Developer Cannot Edit.
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September 14, 2026

The longer versions live on my blog at https://agenticaiarch.com/what-is-an-agentic-ai-managed-setting/ , where I publish a new post every weekday on one agentic AI governance question, and there is a subscribe box at the end of each post if you would like them in your inbox.

Who can edit the rule? That is the only question this edition sets out to answer. Last week I covered the circuit breaker and prompt injection and both assume the rules hold. This one asks who could quietly remove them.

You cannot govern what a developer can edit. You can govern what only the admin can.

What Is an Agentic AI Circuit Breaker? It Is a Rehearsal, Not a Button.
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September 13, 2026

The longer version of this newsletter edition is live on my blog at https://agenticaiarch.com/what-is-an-agentic-ai-circuit-breaker/

First, a thank you. Three Thinkers360 Certified Expert badges arrived this week, for Agentic AI, AI Orchestration and AI Governance. They sit on this edition's cover, so let me be plain about why. Thinkers360 does not read a CV. It reads what gets read. The blog and these five newsletters got read because you subscribed, commented, and sent a post to a colleague. So the badges are yours as much as mine. Thank you!

What Is an Agentic Software Factory? It Is a Fleet You Can Govern.
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September 12, 2026

The longer versions live on my blog at https://agenticaiarch.com/uber-software-factory/, where I publish a new post every weekday on one agentic AI governance question, and there is a subscribe box at the end of each post if you would like them in your inbox.

Agentic AI Context Caching: Pay Once Read Fifty Times
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September 12, 2026

The longer versions live on my blog at https://agenticaiarch.com/agentic-ai-context-caching/ where I publish a new post every weekday on one agentic AI governance question, and there is a subscribe box at the end of each post if you would like them in your inbox.

What Is an Agentic AI Autonomy Tier? It Is a Band, Not a Grant.
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September 11, 2026

The longer versions of this newsletter edition is live on my blog at https://agenticaiarch.com/what-is-an-agentic-ai-autonomy-tier/

How much should you let an agent do before a human looks? Every enterprise agentic AI program answers that in its first month, and most answer it the same wrong way. They treat the autonomy tier as a setting. Somebody with the right permission flips it, and that is the decision. Today's post is about why a tier that works like that is a grant, and why a grant is the one thing an agentic AI governance program cannot afford.

What Do the Five Best Agentic AI P&L Posts Agree On?
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September 11, 2026

It Is a Loop, Not a Line Item.
Per-token prices have fallen more than two-hundred-fold in two years. Enterprise AI bills have gone the other way. Every CFO I talk to has noticed, and very few have been given a reason that survives the second meeting. So here is the question this edition sets out to answer: if the model is getting cheaper, why is the agent getting more expensive?

Enterprise Agentic AI Roadmap for 2027: Governance Plan With Architecture
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September 10, 2026

The longer versions is live on my blog at https://agenticaiarch.com/enterprise-agentic-ai-roadmap-2027/

Here is the question this edition sets out to answer: if a Fortune 1000 lender handed me a blank page and said "2027, what do we actually do," what would I write on it?

What Do the Five Best Agentic AI Case Studies Agree On?
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September 10, 2026

blog: https://agenticaiarch.com/category/case-study/

The longer versions live on my blog at agenticaiarch.com, where I publish a new post every weekday on one agentic AI governance question, and there is a subscribe box at the end of each post if you would like them in your inbox.

What Is Agentic AI Context Compaction? It Is a Deletion With a Narrative Attached.
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September 08, 2026

The longer versions of this post is live on my blog at https://agenticaiarch.com/what-is-agentic-ai-context-compaction/, where I publish a new post every weekday on one agentic AI governance question, and there is a subscribe box at the end of each post if you would like them in your inbox.

Earned Autonomy: A Governance Methodology and Scoring Framework for Agentic AI
Independently published (Amazon KDP)
July 30, 2026

Autonomy is not a setting you enable. It is a position your organization earns — and the evidence says almost nobody has earned it yet.

Gartner predicts that more than 40 percent of agentic AI projects will be canceled by the end of 2027, and it names the causes in a revealing order: escalating costs first, unclear business value second, inadequate risk controls third. Model capability is not on the list at all. Only 23 percent of organizations have scaled an agentic system anywhere in the enterprise. And two-thirds of the technology chiefs surveyed by the IBM Institute for Business Value report the same thing in different words: the authority they have handed to agents has outrun the accountability they can exercise.

That gap is what this book closes.

A stage-gated methodology, not a manifesto

Earned Autonomy sets out five stages — Prompted, Piloted, Governed, Assured, Autonomous — and assesses three tracks across them: governance, agent identity, and security and execution boundaries. Two meters run beneath every stage: what the work costs, and what it was worth. Each stage has a testable exit gate. Nothing advances on assertion.

An Index, and 507 deployments scored on it

The Earned Autonomy Index scores a deployment from 0 to 1000 across five pillars and twenty criteria, then applies one rule that changes the answer: your band is gated by your weakest pillar, not licensed by your highest total. Applied to 507 publicly documented enterprise deployments, three quarters sit in the Piloted band and not one reaches Autonomous. Two pillars — Outcome Assurance and Intent Specification — cap 470 of the 507. The field has built the controls that stop an agent doing damage. It has not built the controls that would tell anyone the agent has stopped doing its job.

Inside

The supervision gap: why authority outruns accountability, and what it costs
Agent identity: the control plane an examiner asks about first
The four-question control plane: what an agent may do, whose words it may obey, what it may hand on
The Token Trap: engineering agentic economics before the invoice arrives
Ten parameters for agent performance, and how each one gets gamed
The audit-survivability test: for any action any agent took, can you show who acted, on whose authority, and at what cost?
A self-assessment that gives you a score, a capping pillar, and a next move
Who it is for

CIOs, CTOs, enterprise architects, and risk and audit leaders who must decide how much autonomy to grant — and defend the decision afterwards.

I have spent more than two decades building enterprise systems for Fortune 100 clients, most recently the agentic AI platforms behind regulated auto loan and credit card origination. The methodology in this book is what that work taught me.

Companion volume to Intent In, Outcomes Out: A Practitioner's Field Guide to Agentic AI for the Enterprise.

Intent In, Outcomes Out: A Practitioner's Field Guide to Agentic AI for the Enterprise
Independently published (Amazon KDP)
July 10, 2026

A practitioner's field guide to building and governing agentic AI systems in the enterprise. Drawing on production experience in regulated auto loan and credit card origination, this book introduces the Five-Stage Agentic AI Roadmap and makes one argument: the model is a commodity — the loop, governed from day one, is the product.

Enterprise Agentic AI Case Studies
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July 24, 2026

I write Enterprise Agentic AI Case Studies, a LinkedIn newsletter that examines one publicly documented enterprise agentic AI deployment per edition. Each analysis covers the business problem, the agent architecture and stack, the governance and control model, the measured outcome, and what I would do differently. Sources are named and claims are traceable, drawn from my library of 507 verified enterprise agentic AI cases.

Agentic AI P&L
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July 10, 2026

Enterprise agentic AI, costed. Payback periods, hidden failure costs and the P&L math.