Agent Readiness
What does agent readiness actually mean?
Readiness for AI agents is not a technology checklist. It is the state of your processes, your data, your governance, and above all your people — and it can be measured.
Andrew Tokmakoff
Insights
Honest perspectives on agent readiness — the technology, the governance, and the people — written by engineers who build and operate multi-agent systems in production. No hype, nothing gated.
- Field Notes
Twelve agents, one report: field notes from a production synthesis pipeline
What actually breaks when a dozen AI agents cooperate on a single piece of analysis — and what we had to build to make their output trustworthy.
Andrew Tokmakoff
- Field Notes
When the agent hears it wrong: designing voice interviews people actually finish
Voice is the most natural interface for organisational listening — and the least forgiving to engineer. Field notes from running AI-led voice interviews in production.
Andrew Tokmakoff
- Agent Readiness
Your AI policy is not a governance capability
Nearly every organisation now has an AI policy. Very few can answer the three operational questions an agent deployment forces. The gap between the two is measurable.
Andrew Tokmakoff
- People & Governance
The displacement fork: skill up your people, or trim them and shrink
Every executive conversation about agents reaches the same decision — treat AI as a cost lever or a capability lever. The choice is starker, and more visible to your staff, than most leaders admit.
Andrew Tokmakoff
- People & Governance
Sovereign by design: what data residency really means for agent adoption in Australia
For Australian organisations — especially in government — where an agent thinks is as important as what it does. A practical look at sovereignty, the APPs, and what to demand from vendors.
Andrew Tokmakoff
