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The Agentic Enterprise PART 6 · WHAT A COMPANY LOOKS LIKE AS IT KEEPS ADDING AGENTS Where this leads. One process at a time, until agents are simply part of how the company works. Invoices Late payments Questionnaires New hires Quotes Month end Support cases Applicants Purchasing Contracts Expenses Reporting We call that an agentic enterprise. Year one: the first few processes. Paying invoices running picked, redesigned, sourced, run, measured Questionnaires running picked, redesigned, sourced, run, measured New hires running picked, redesigned, sourced, run, measured Each one goes through the same five steps. The first few take months, because the team is still learning. Each one gets faster. how long a process took, from picking it to running it (an illustration) the first process twelve weeks the fifth four weeks the tenth two weeks The catalog gives a starting point. The team's own builders answer most requests. The helper agent recorded every decision, so nothing is worked out twice. People move to steering. WHAT PEOPLE DO NOW Set the rules and the limits Review the results Answer the questions agents raise Decide the exceptions more of their time goes to judgment WHAT AGENTS DO the routine steps at any hour across more and more processes each person covers far more work, and the company gets more done The company's own agents. agents that carry the company's own knowledge, reused across processes The pricing agent how this company prices used in quotes, renewals, and the sales desk The complaints agent how it handles a complaint used in support cases and returns The month-end agent how it closes its books used in month end and reporting These agents are assets. They are reused, and they improve as the company learns. Limits the agents cannot cross. written once, enforced everywhere, checked before an agent acts (an illustration) Refunds an agent may approve up to 500; a person approves anything above that Purchases an agent may commit up to 5,000 a month; a person approves the rest Contracts always a person THE CHECK before the agent acts, not after The company decides what its agents may do and how much they may commit to. Change no longer waits for people. Invoices Late payments Questionnaires New hires Quotes Month end Support cases Applicants Purchasing Contracts Expenses Reporting Now imagine that on every process at once. Overnight, agents propose. In the morning, people decide what to keep. No longer limited by how many people can work on change at once. Processes keep improving. PROPOSED by an agent, overnight it saw the same mismatch forty times, and said so APPROVED by Dana, with the reason the agent checks, and a person sees only the flags RUNNING the new version every run shows which version it followed The team reviews what the agents found, and the changes they approve go live. Agents working with agents. Invoice agentreads, flags Reconciliation agentmatches, fixes what it can A persononly if asked Payagent Work moves from agent to agent, and a person is asked only where the company decided a person must stay in the loop. From buyer to supplier. INSIDE THE COMPANY the agents it built for itself THE BOARD Another company asks fora month-end agent The month-end agentproven in its own books This company answers,same contract, same reputation Work that was internal becomes a product. Year three. Invoices Late payments Questionnaires New hires Quotes Month end Support cases Applicants Purchasing Contracts Expenses Reporting Most processes run with agents inside. A small Strategy & Process team keeps redesigning. People spend their time on judgment, relationships, and new work. Each process costs less to run, and the company can take on more. What is new here. NEW A company that improves everywhere at once not one project at a time NEW Agents that are company assets reused, improved, and sold NEW Limits enforced by the platform with everything on the record, so moving fast stays safe NEW Agents that improve things while people sleep the work keeps moving overnight In short Start with a few processes, and get faster with each one. People move to steering and reviewing. The company's agents become its assets, within the limits it set. Agents improve every process at once, and people decide what to keep. The company that bought agents can also sell them.
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