Insights

The Agentic Ready Blog

Field notes on getting AI agents ready for production — governance, evaluation, identity, and the honest path from pilot to something you can trust.

Featured

Getting Your First Agent Live

From Pilot to Production: Building Agent Observability Before Deployment

The observability and incident-response infrastructure that separates the 5% of agents that reach production from the 95% that stall or fail.

Matt Doughty

16 July 2026 6 min read

Getting Your First Agent Live

The Governance Gap: Why 72% of Enterprises Deploy Agents Without Accountability

72% of enterprises deploy AI agents without accountability frameworks. Here is what that gap looks like in production and how to close it.

Matt Doughty

14 July 2026 5 min read

Getting Your First Agent Live

The Governance Gap: Why 72% of Enterprises Deploy Agents Without Accountability

72% of enterprises run AI agents without accountability frameworks. Here is what that gap looks like in production and how to close it.

Matt Doughty

12 July 2026 6 min read

Getting Your First Agent Live

Human-in-the-Loop Patterns That Earn an Agent Autonomy

Design the human oversight that lets your first agent launch safely, then graduate it toward autonomy as its track record earns the trust.

Matt Doughty

10 July 2026 6 min read

Getting Your First Agent Live

Agent Permissions: Least Privilege for Software That Acts

How to scope credentials, set tool allowlists, and think about blast radius before your first AI agent touches production systems.

Matt Doughty

8 July 2026 6 min read

Getting Your First Agent Live

The Data and API Plumbing Your First Agent Needs

Why most first agents stall at integration, not intelligence, and the plumbing checklist to run before you commit to a use case.

Matt Doughty

7 July 2026 7 min read

Embedding AI Into Your Company

Building New Security Perimeters: How Agent Tool Access Changes Your Risk Model

MCP gives agents direct access to native apps and internal tools. Here is how that changes your attack surface and what governance you need.

Matt Doughty

6 July 2026 9 min read

Evaluating AI Agents

When Agent-Generated Code Needs Different Verification Than Human Code

Agent-generated code fails in patterns human reviewers are not trained to catch. Here is what verification needs to change and when AI-to-AI review makes sense.

Matt Doughty

6 July 2026 5 min read

Getting Your First Agent Live

When Agents Fail in Production: Learning From Enterprise Reversals

Ford reversed an AI quality system, Meta admitted slower-than-expected progress. Here is what both reversals teach you about scoping your first agent pilot.

Matt Doughty

6 July 2026 6 min read

Evaluating AI Agents

Agent Evals 101: Building Your First Evaluation Suite

A practical guide to building your first agent evaluation suite, from golden sets to LLM-as-judge and production monitoring.

Matt Doughty

5 July 2026 7 min read

Embedding AI Into Your Company

Beyond Copilot, Claude and ChatGPT: Actually Embedding AI Into Your Company

What changes when AI stops suggesting and starts acting, and how to make that transition without betting the company on it.

Matt Doughty

5 July 2026 9 min read

Embedding AI Into Your Company

Build vs Buy for Your First Production Agent

A practical decision framework for choosing between building an in-house agent and buying a vertical product, with the questions that matter most.

Matt Doughty

5 July 2026 6 min read

Evaluating AI Agents

How Do You Know Your AI Agents Are Doing Their Job?

Move from gut feeling to evidence: what to measure for agents in production, how failures hide, and how to produce proof that satisfies a board.

Matt Doughty

5 July 2026 8 min read

Getting Your First Agent Live

How to Pick Your First AI Agent Use Case

A practical three-test method for selecting your first agent use case, with worked examples, a ranked list of forgiving starting points, and a one-page charter template.

Matt Doughty

5 July 2026 7 min read