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Beware 'Business As A Service'. Get Enterprise Agentic Mesh

Buying agentic AI from one hyperscaler looks convenient. But agents encode your business's intelligence, so handing the lot to Microsoft or Google risks core capability. Firms in banking, insurance and pharma see the danger. How do you gain without becoming a 'Business as a Service'?

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Beware 'Business As A Service'. Get Enterprise Agentic Mesh

In the next 24 months many companies will become agentic native, so you want to do it right.

Jan 2025, Joao Moura, CrewAI.

It would be tempting to adopt an agentic strategy from a 'one stop shop', a hyperscaler. But Agentic AI is not just another SaaS tool, it encompasses the intelligence and learnings behind a business, not just the processes and technology.

It would be a fundamental loss of control and negotiating power to outsource all Agentic AI to one supplier. It would be 'Business as a Service'.

Over the past month I have spoken with three global companies about agentic ai strategy, Banking, Insurance and Pharma. Each are aware of this risk, not least in Banking where the concern is high.

BUT, the medium sized enterprises appear to be waiting for Microsoft or Google to sell them a Business as a Service. I get it, but what starts as a convenience can become a one way decision to gift ever more core intelligence.

If you are an enterprise looking to the enormous productivity gains of agentic ai then read the open source Agentic Mesh by Eric Broda:

https://lnkd.in/gqvYf-Uy

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