
Agentic AI in Business
The Complete Guide to Understanding and Integrating Agents Into Your Business Processes and Beyond
About this book
As AI systems move beyond automation into the territory of complex decision-making, the ability to integrate agentic AI into business processes has become an essential enterprise-level capability. Author Matt Carlson presents a thorough and comprehensively structured work on this matter that articulates the discipline of integrating autonomy within business operations. Written for business leaders, executives, and entrepreneurs, this book provides the conceptual foundations and practical architectures needed to deploy agentic AI effectively and at scale across operations.
Spanning 20 modules organized into six chapters, the book opens with foundational principles: what agentic AI is and how variables such as context shape agent behavior. From there, it develops into applied integration patterns used in real organizations. Among others, readers learn how to incorporate agents into business processes, define boundaries of autonomy, design agent lifecycles, coordinate agents across functions, and establish governance mechanisms that keep systems accountable and safe.
Table of contents
- 1Chapter I — From Automation to Agency
- 2Chapter II — Aligning Agentic AI with Business
- 3Chapter III — Deploying Agents
- 4Chapter IV — Governance, Risk, and Control
- 5Chapter V — Real World Use Cases
- 6Chapter VI — Scaling Agentic AI Across the Organization