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> An AI agent implementation playbook is the ordered sequence that moves an agent from a chosen use case to trusted, unsupervised production. Its seven stages (scope, score, design, build, evaluate,...
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> An AI agent risk assessment framework scores a single agent workflow on five factors (autonomy, reversibility, data sensitivity, customer impact, and auditability) to decide how much oversight it...
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> AI agent security is the practice of capping what a deployed agent, and anyone who hijacks it, can do to the systems and data it touches. The agent's defining flaw, that it cannot tell data from...
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> An AI agent governance framework is the set of runtime controls (scoped permissions, approval gates, exception queues, human review, audit trails, and a kill switch) plus the single accountable...
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> An AI agent ROI measurement framework separates an agent's return into four classes (cost avoidance, capacity creation, risk and quality, and revenue lift) and measures each one on the clock it...
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> AI agent performance metrics are the numbers a business tracks to confirm a deployed AI agent does its job correctly, safely, affordably, and fast enough to matter. Marshal sorts them into five...
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> An AI agent implementation playbook is the ordered sequence that moves an agent from a chosen use case to trusted, unsupervised production. Its seven stages (scope, score, design, build, evaluate,...
Kurt Fischman · Jun 22, 2026
> AI agent evaluation is the testing discipline that decides whether an agent can be trusted to own a business workflow. It runs on three surfaces: reliability (does the agent complete the job),...
Kurt Fischman · Jun 10, 2026
> Choosing the right AI agent use case means passing each candidate workflow through three gates in order: value (is the job worth owning), risk (can the business afford the worst day), and...
Kurt Fischman · Jun 10, 2026
> Designing an agentic workflow means specifying five stages in order: intake (the trigger and the inputs), reasoning (the decision and its limits), action (what the agent may write and where),...
Kurt Fischman · Jun 8, 2026
An AI Agent System is the productized operational layer that wraps one or more AI agents, the automation underneath them, the governance around them, and the integrations into a company's real...
Kurt Fischman · May 26, 2026
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