Agentic Enterprise

Agentic Enterprise: A Leader's Guide to Orchestrating, Governing, and Scaling AI Agent Systems

Discover how agentic AI, AI agents, and enterprise AI systems are changing the way organizations automate processes, make decisions, and create business value.

Agentic Enterprise provides technology leaders with a practical framework for understanding, adopting, governing, and scaling AI agent systems. The book explores how organizations can identify valuable agentic AI use cases, assess their AI readiness, design scalable enterprise architectures, and establish governance and security guardrails.

Written for CxOs, VPs, directors, technology leaders, engineering leaders, and AI decision-makers, this guide combines AI strategy with architecture-level guidance. It covers multi-agent systems, AI orchestration, enterprise automation, AI governance, responsible AI, AI risk management, build-versus-buy decisions, vendor lock-in, and scaling AI across the enterprise.

Readers will learn how to:

• Understand agentic AI and identify where AI agents can create real business value
• Evaluate organizational readiness for enterprise AI and AI agent systems
• Identify practical agentic AI use cases
• Make informed build-versus-buy AI decisions and reduce vendor lock-in
• Design scalable and extensible AI agent architectures
• Manage AI governance, security, risk, and responsible AI
• Orchestrate multi-agent AI systems across enterprise environments
• Lead cross-functional teams implementing AI at scale
• Develop a long-term enterprise AI strategy
• Align AI initiatives with business priorities and measurable outcomes

An essential guide for leaders navigating the transition from traditional automation and generative AI toward agentic AI, autonomous AI agents, multi-agent orchestration, and intelligent enterprise systems.

About the Author

Babak Hodjat is the CTO for AI at Cognizant where he leads the Advanced AI Labs, a team of developers and researchers bringing advanced AI solutions to businesses. Babak is the former co-founder and CEO of Sentient, responsible for the core technology behind the world’s largest distributed artificial intelligence system. Babak was also the founder of the world's first AI-driven hedge-fund, Sentient Investment Management. Babak is a serial entrepreneur, having started a number of Silicon Valley companies as main inventor and technologist. Prior to co-founding Sentient, Babak was senior director of engineering at Sybase iAnywhere, where he led mobile solutions engineering. Prior to Sybase, Babak was co-founder, CTO and board member of Dejima Inc. Babak is the primary inventor of Dejima’s patented, agent-oriented technology applied to intelligent interfaces for mobile and enterprise computing – the technology behind Apple’s Siri. Babak has published many papers in the fields of Artificial Life, Agent-Oriented Software Engineering, and Distributed Artificial Intelligence, and has 39 issued US patents to his name. He is an expert in numerous fields of AI, including natural language processing, machine learning, genetic algorithms, distributed AI, and has founded multiple companies in these areas. Babak holds a PhD in Machine Intelligence from Kyushu University, in Fukuoka, Japan. Babak is also the author of "The Narrator", an AI science fiction novella, and "The Konar and the Apple", a collection of short stories based on his youth.

Operating out of Dubai (UAE) and the United States, Antoine Blondeau is a visionary technology entrepreneur and investor. He is the co-founder and managing partner of Alpha Intelligence Capital (AIC), a $450m venture capital firm investing in deep Artificial Intelligence technology companies worldwide. AIC's investments include OpenAI, Aidoc, Envelop Risk, Higgsfield, ZeroEyes, Instadeep (sold to BioNTech), Reaqta (sold to IBM), AImusic (sold to Apple), GetVisibility (sold to Forcepoint). Over the past 25 years Antoine has dedicated himself to the development of Artificial Intelligence. He was the CEO of Dejima, the company that powered DARPA’s foundational CALO project that evolved into Apple’s Siri. Antoine was also President and COO of Nasdaq-listed Zi Corporation, whose predictive text input software was embedded in hundreds of millions of devices. He was the co-founder and CEO of Sentient Technologies, a leading San Francisco Bay Area deep AI technology startup that pioneered massively-scaled Artificial Intelligence.

Antoine has held senior leadership positions at Good Technology, Salesforce, and Sybase. He is an advisor to KKR, Pictet, and BITKRAFT Ventures. Antoine is also board chair of crypto.com, one of the world’s largest blockchain and cryptocurrency full-service platforms.