Frame the initiative
Strategy & vision
Frame the initiative
Define the scope, strategic objectives, and constraints of the agentic system. This foundational phase sets the direction for the entire design.
- Align stakeholders on the desired level of autonomy
- Identify risks and regulatory constraints
- Define measurable success criteria
- Strategic brief and system scope
- Stakeholder and objectives map
- Risk / benefit / constraint matrix
- Executive leadership
- System architects
- Business owners
Define roles and governance
HITL & accountability
Define roles and governance
Structure human responsibilities, control mechanisms, and HITL loops. Governance is the foundation of every reliable agentic system.
- Define Human-In-The-Loop loops for every critical action
- Create the RACI matrix for AI / human decisions
- Establish escalation and override protocols
- Agentic governance charter
- RACI matrix and access policies
- Formalized HITL protocols
- CISO
- DPO
- Operations managers
- Compliance
Design the agent
Architecture & design
Design the agent
Define the functional architecture, agentic patterns, and tooling. Design determines the system's ability to operate autonomously and reliably.
- Model the agent's capabilities and limits
- Choose agentic patterns suited to the context
- Design tools, memory, and interfaces
- Agentic architecture diagram
- Detailed functional specifications
- Tooling and memory plan
- AI architects
- Product managers
- UX / UI designers
Build and integrate
Implementation & pipelines
Build and integrate
Implement agent components, connect tools, and integrate existing systems into robust, maintainable pipelines.
- Develop components according to specifications
- Connect APIs and data sources
- Set up agentic CI/CD pipelines
- Versioned, documented source code
- Unit and integration tests
- Complete technical documentation
- AI developers
- DevOps / MLOps
- Systems integrators
Validate (AGT & HITL)
Testing & compliance
Validate (AGT & HITL)
Test reliability, alignment, and governability. Validation ensures the agent behaves as expected under all conditions.
- Validate behavior in nominal and adversarial cases
- Test HITL loops and override mechanisms
- Audit regulatory and ethical compliance
- Testing and validation report
- AGT compliance certificate
- Monitoring and alerting plan
- QA engineers
- Compliance officers
- Business supervisors
Deploy and operate
Production & run
Deploy and operate
Move to production and keep the system operational. Deployment marks the start of continuous, supervised, evolving operations.
- Plan and execute progressive rollout
- Monitor performance and behavior in production
- Manage incidents and continuous improvement
- Release notes and deployment plan
- Operational runbooks
- Supervision dashboards
- Ops team
- User support
- Product owners