The magentIQ show

Ready, Steady, Go: Your 2027 Agentic Playbook

Broadcast: 27 Oct 2026
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2026 was the year agentic AI moved from promise to practice, and the results were mixed. Most pilots that stalled didn't fail because of the technology. They failed because the foundations weren't ready: data that couldn't be trusted, processes no one had documented, teams that weren't prepared, and governance that arrived too late.

In this episode of The magentIQ Show, Ian Barkin and David Brain unpack a simple three-step approach for 2027. Ready: assess your organization across the five towers of readiness. Steady: get your house in order before you choose tools. Go: deploy a multi-agent operating model that balances frontier AI, deterministic automation, and human oversight.

Why join

1. Learn from 2026's wins and misfires. Hear what separated scaled programs from stalled pilots, so you can avoid repeating the same mistakes in your 2027 plans.
2. Benchmark your readiness. Get a practical framework for scoring your organization across Data, Process, Talent, Tech, and Governance.
3. Focus on the work that matters. Find out why process redesign, data cleansing, and leadership alignment come before tool selection.
4. Design the right agent mix. Understand where frontier models add value, where rules-based automation does the heavy lifting, and where people need to stay in control.
5. Define the human roles. Learn how the "human at the helm" and "humans in the loop" govern agents, catch failures, and keep improving them.
6. Leave with first steps. Take away concrete actions to baseline readiness, identify high-value opportunities, and build a case for your 2027 agentic budget.