Happy New Year, readers.
In 2024, we played with prompts. In 2025, we integrated tools. In 2026, we must architect value at scale.
The "scaling problem" has evolved. It is no longer about the volume of activity—AI has effectively made the marginal cost of activity zero. Our new challenge is a strategic bottleneck of intelligence: how do we ensure that every autonomous action drives tangible business impact responsibly rather than just operational noise?
This year, the AI Value Strategy newsletter moves beyond the "what" and "why" to provide the blueprints and playbooks for how. We are entering the era of the Integrated Agentic Enterprise.
The 2026 Roadmap: Success in the Physical and Functional World
Our upcoming articles will dive into how agentic foundations are being applied for massive impact across every corner of the modern organization. Here is what you can expect from us this year:
Success Stories Across Business Functions: Use cases across Customer Service, Sales, Marketing, HR, Software Development, Finance and IT flipping the script from cost centers to revenue engines.
Industry Vertical Blueprints: Pragmatic Agentic AI use cases for Financial Services, Healthcare, Retail, Telco, and Media & Entertainment.
The Leap into Physical AI: Exploring the "Agentic Loops" required to bridge digital reasoning with real-time physical action in factories and warehouses.
From Theory to Execution: The Fluidic Shift
To achieve the scale described above, organizations must undergo a structural evolution. In my latest research, The Fluidic Enterprise, I argue that the rigid, "solid-state" hierarchies of the past cannot support the speed of an agentic backbone. We must move toward modular, self-correcting structures that flow around value.
To help you lead this transition, I am excited to announce the release of my new digital product: The Agentic Enterprise: Strategy and Execution Kit.
This kit is designed to turn the "2026 Mandate" into your internal reality. It includes:
The Agentic AI Readiness Scorecard: An interactive workbook with strategic framework and scoring rubric that you can use to generate a bespoke Agentic AI Readiness Report, clearly identifying where to invest and where to govern for successful human-agent co-elevation.
The Fluidic Enterprise Action Blueprint For Human-Agent Co-Elevation: A 4-phase blueprint (includes action, deliverable, owner, timeline and success metric) to help you strategically leverage Agentic AI to co-elevate human and AI agent capabilities, automating complex workflows, and driving sustainable competitive advantage responsibly.
Early Adopter Offer: I am offering a 32% discount to the first 50 buyers who secure their kit before the end of January 2026.
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The Agentic Enterprise: Strategy and Execution Kit
Stop guessing and start scaling. This kit provides the proprietary AI Readiness Scorecard (diagnostic workbook) to pinpoint critical gaps, plus the 4-Phase Fluidic Enterprise Blueprint to implement...
Scaling the Future: Lessons, Challenges, and Best Practices
Scaling these successes requires a systematic, operational discipline. Our coverage will focus on:
The Lesson: Stop the Sprawl. Software sprawl is the #1 inhibitor to value. We will show you how to build an Orchestration Layer that acts as the brain across your legacy systems.
The Challenge: Data Readiness. You cannot have autonomous execution without "machine-legible" data. We will dive into RAG as the standard for grounding agents in proprietary truth.
The Best Practice: Agentic Guardrails. As systems gain autonomy, security must be embedded to prevent "hallucinations" and protect your brand’s voice.
Are You Ready to Scale?
The "Agentic Economy" is a macro-economic transformation that will begin showing measurable GDP impact shortly. In 2026, the divide between leaders and laggards will be determined by who moves from "experimentation" to "orchestration."
Let’s architect value together.
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