TDWI Benchmark Report: Agentic AI Readiness

The Agentic Wave Is Coming….

Artificial intelligence is entering a new phase. What began as a rapid increase in generative AI adoption, often driven by accessible tools that can produce text, code, and content, has evolved into something more: systems that do not just generate, but act. In this next wave, often referred to as agentic AI, organizations are moving toward systems that can reason, plan, and execute tasks across enterprise environments.

The shift is significant. Generative AI lowered the barrier to entry for AI by enabling organizations to experiment quickly, often without deep investments in data or
infrastructure. As a result, adoption surged. However, many of these early deployments remained limited—focused on productivity gains such as drafting content or summarizing information. Agentic AI, by contrast, introduces the possibility of automating entire workflows and decision processes. It represents a move to coordinated systems that operate across tools, data, and business processes. This promises potentially huge transformations and disruptions.

TDWI developed the Agentic AI Readiness Assessment, a framework designed to evaluate an organization’s ability to move from experimentation to enterprise scale deployment using five dimensions.

• Organizational and Capability Readiness
• Data and Context Readiness
• Technology and Engineering Readiness
• Governance, Risk, and Control Readiness
• Operationalization and Learning Readiness

Read the report to learn more.