WATCH · AI & Automation_
Agentic AI: The Early Adopter Window Is Open Now
Saleem Beg · Founder, Teque
● Posted 3 weeks ago
KEY TAKEAWAYS_
- Agentic AI is not AI that answers questions — it executes workflows, makes decisions inside them, and completes tasks autonomously; it's now predictable, evaluable, and trustworthy in production
- Only 2–5% of UK SMEs currently have anything agentic in production; the vast majority are still using AI for content generation and chatbots
- The .com and cloud migration waves both rewarded early movers with advantages that took late movers years to close — some never did; the same pattern is beginning now
TRANSCRIPT_
Social media is full of AI content, but most of it is just noise. And the way a lot of businesses think they are adopting AI by uploading documents to chat GPT or putting a chatbot on their website that, let's face it, does a terrible job of showing any intelligence, artificial or otherwise, that's not really businesses adopting AI.
What AI actually means at a business level remains largely obscure, but there is one area where serious organizations are now heavily investing. And that is agentic AI. Not AI that answers questions, but AI that executes.
That takes a workflow, runs it, makes decisions inside it, and completes tasks autonomously. And here's why it's different from everything we've seen so far. It's no longer a black magic box. It's predictable, it's evaluable, you can monitor it, measure it, catch it when it degrades, detect and fix uh when it hallucinates. In other words, you can trust it in production. I've
watched two waves like this before, dot-com and cloud migration. In both cases, the businesses that moved early built advantages that took late movers years to close. And some never did. Agentic AI is the next version of that pattern.
While the vast majority are largely using AI for content generation and chatting, only 2 to 5% of UK SMEs have anything agentic in production. So, the window is open right now, and it has closed before. The question is, where will your business be when it does?
“It's no longer a black magic box. It's predictable, it's evaluable, you can monitor it, measure it.”
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