Building the Agentic Enterprise

Build production-ready agentic AI systems that move beyond pilots with governed architecture, multi-agent orchestration, AgentOps, EvalOps, and Google Cloud.Key FeaturesBridge the Day 2 production gap with secure, governed, cost-aware agent architecture patternsEngineer around the model with context, Harness Engineering, AgentOps, and EvalOpsScale human-agent delivery with the AI Squad Model beyond the Supervision CeilingPurchase of the print or Kindle book includes a free PDF eBookBook DescriptionAI can now produce credible demos, prototypes, and proof-of-value concepts faster and more cheaply than most enterprises can absorb. Yet far fewer ever reach production. Building the Agentic Enterprise is a practical field guide to closing that gap: identifying which ideas are worth pursuing and designing the architecture, controls, and operating model needed to make agentic systems reliable, governable, and repeatable.Drawing on two decades of experience across cloud, microservices, and AI, and three years of taking agentic systems into real-world delivery, the book shows why the model is only one part of the challenge. Using Google Cloud and ADK as the practical lens, a continuous case study grounds the patterns, trade-offs, and decisions in a realistic production setting.You will learn how to design agent architectures, orchestration, context, memory, security, observability, governance, and evaluation, while building an AI Squad Model where human experts supervise specialized agents within clear boundaries. The book then expands to the platform and operating model required to scale safely across an organization.By the end, you will be able to judge where agents create real business value, choose the right level of autonomy, and build an agentic capability your organization can trust, operate, govern, and scale.What you will learnDistinguish proof of value from operable, governable agent systemsChoose agent architectures while accounting for the Coordination TaxDesign orchestration around the Three Cs for reliable outcomesEngineer governed context, memory, and harnesses for reuse at scaleDefine Agency Scope to expand autonomy deliberately and safelySeparate AgentOps platform health from EvalOps decision qualityPersist decisions, state, and evidence for audit and evaluationScale AI Squads beyond the Supervision Ceiling with human accountabilityWho this book is forEnterprise architects, solution architects, technical directors, principal engineers, applied AI engineers, cloud consultants, AI platform teams, and engineering leaders who need to take agentic AI from pilots to governed production systems. A general understanding of modern software systems, cloud platforms, and APIs is expected; Python familiarity is helpful but not required.