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The Enterprise AI Agents Operating Manual

A sober production manual for designing, permissioning, testing, monitoring, and governing AI agents before they touch live workflows, customer data, or operational systems.

EUR 197

Price

Online

Format

260 pages

Pages

The Enterprise AI Agents Operating Manual cover

Agent operating model

Human approval architecture

Monitoring and incident framework

Who It Is For

Built for people making business decisions.

CIOs, CTOs, AI leaders, security teams, operations executives, and implementation teams deploying agentic AI beyond controlled demos

Practical Use

Use the book as an operating manual for planning AI automation, selecting the right workflows, governing risk, measuring ROI, and moving from isolated pilots to a managed automation portfolio.

Business Outcomes

Move agents beyond demos without losing control

Define tool permissions, identity, escalation, and audit trails

Operate agent systems with testing, monitoring, and incident response

Reader Signal

Built for operators who need more than AI hype.

The book is positioned for executives and implementation teams who need a practical path from pilot activity to managed automation capability.

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The useful part is the operating model. It does not sell AI as a tool purchase; it shows how to make ownership, governance, and ROI clear enough for leadership to act.

COO, mid-market services firm

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The value map and stage-gate model make the book practical. It gives teams a way to decide what should be automated first and what should be killed before it wastes budget.

Transformation lead, B2B operations

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This reads like a field manual for executives. The strongest sections are governance, operations, and measurement because they address what usually breaks after the demo.

CIO advisor, enterprise AI programs

Inside the Website Reader

Chapter preview.

260 pages
01

Why Agents Are Operationally Different

Explains when autonomous or semi-autonomous AI agents are useful, and where tool access, permissions, and approvals must be controlled.

02

The Enterprise Agent Operating Model

Shows how to turn the chapter topic into a clear business decision, operating model, or implementation step.

03

Choosing Workflows for Agentic Systems

Explains how to move from a business process to a working AI-enabled system with clear inputs, owners, and outputs.

04

Tool Use, Permissions, and Identity

Shows how to turn the chapter topic into a clear business decision, operating model, or implementation step.

05

Memory, Context, and Retrieval

Shows how business knowledge, retrieval, source quality, and context design determine whether AI output can be trusted.

06

Human Approval and Escalation Design

Shows how to turn the chapter topic into a clear business decision, operating model, or implementation step.

07

Evaluation, Simulation, and Red Teaming

Builds the testing discipline needed to catch weak outputs before users or customers depend on them.

08

Monitoring, Drift, and Incident Response

Shows how to turn the chapter topic into a clear business decision, operating model, or implementation step.

09

Agent Security and Data Boundaries

Maps the data, access, vendor, and compliance questions that must be answered before scaling.

10

Governance, Auditability, and Ownership

Defines the controls, review points, ownership, and evidence needed to use AI without creating unmanaged exposure.

11

The Enterprise Agent Rollout

Shows how to turn the chapter topic into a clear business decision, operating model, or implementation step.

12

From Single Agent to Agent Operations

Shows how to turn the chapter topic into a clear business decision, operating model, or implementation step.

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