Course 6 of The AI Decision Course
Agents in production
For leaders deciding where AI agents can do real work: which processes are ready, how much autonomy to give and when, error rates, and keeping agents in check once they run.
19 short lessons. Each one is a five-minute read with a card your team fills in and three AI prompts to test it.
Lessons in this course
- Ask what a so-called agent actually does
- From answering the question to finishing the job
- Which processes are ready for an agent
- Which back-office work an agent can take today
- Five decisions that move an AI agent from pilot to production
- What error rate can each process live with?
- How much autonomy to plan for, and how soon
- Specify the agent before it is built, starting with its limits
- Getting your experts' judgement into the agent
- Redesign the interface, or describe what you already have
- Where each agent rule belongs: code, plain words, or a person
- Widen an agent's permissions one tool at a time
- The checks that run between the agent and the customer
- Who checks the work when agents do thousands of tasks
- Four decisions that improve an agent after launch
- One coordinating agent, or a network of specialists
- Three decisions on agents that dig into incidents
- How long a task can get before an agent's errors pile up
- What an agent should remember about a customer, and when it lets go