Before You Deploy Agentic AI: A Practitioner’s Framework for Enterprise Readiness

Eighteen years of building enterprise data platforms in regulated financial services taught me one thing above all else: the systems that fail in production are never the ones that failed in the. They are the ones where the operating model, the governance framework, and the human oversight paths were not ready for what the system could actually do. Agentic AI is arriving in enterprises right now, and most operating models are not ready for it.