AI Agent Readiness Framework for 2026
Many organizations have successfully introduced AI assistants that summarize documents, draft messages, or answer employee questions. That experience is useful, but it does not automatically make the organization ready for AI agents. An assistant normally proposes information for a person to use. An agent may select tools, access systems, coordinate a multi-step workflow, update records, send communications, or make a bounded operational decision. Once software can act, the readiness question changes. Model quality is only one dependency among many. ...