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The Agentic AI Maturity Model: Four Stages of Enterprise AI Growth

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In the rapidly evolving landscape of AI, moving from a pilot project to a fully integrated, operational AI strategy requires a clear roadmap.

Progress provides a phased approach to help you activate, expand and scale your AI capabilities with security, trust and repeatable results. 

1. AI Activation: "Start Fast, Prove Value"

Goal: Achieve immediate impact with narrow, well-defined use cases like Discovery, Q&A, Summarization and Decision Support.

  • Value: Rapid deployment with minimal platform overhead. Demonstrates AI credibility quickly by proving that AI can work effectively with your specific data.
  • Outcome: Purpose-built, enterprise-safe AI that delivers quick wins. 
2. AI Expansion: "Break Down Silos"

Goal: Scale AI across multiple teams and integrate diverse, siloed data sources while maintaining stringent security.

  • Value: Establishes consistent shared context across agents with automated, policy-driven governance and reusable logic.
  • Outcome: A transition from a single use case to a multi-functional AI environment that demands a solid data foundation.
3. Agentic Data Foundation: "Reliable & Repeatable AI"

Goal: Transition from proven AI to trusted AI. At this stage, compliance, lineage and shared knowledge across teams become critical.

  • Value: Unifies access to structured and unstructured data. Provides semantic enrichment for deeper AI responses and acts as a reusable knowledge layer for all agents.
  • Outcome: Enterprise-grade foundation that facilitates AI responses that are reliable, repeatable and governed.
4. Scaled Agentic Intelligence: "Sustainable & Operational AI"

Goal: Embed AI into the very fabric of your business workflows. Move from assistive AI to operational agents that reason, orchestrate and act.

  • Value: Becomes the "invisible backbone" of your operations, directly affecting revenue, customer experience and operational efficiency.
  • Outcome: Sustainable, autonomous AI that drives high-level business outcomes. 

The Progress Advantage: Two Pillars, One Strategy

To reach full maturity, your organization needs two core components working together in harmony:

  1. Progress® Agentic RAG Solution: The "reasoning engine" that provides intelligence, retrieval orchestration and action-oriented capabilities.
  2. Progress® Data Platform: The "data foundation" that enables AI that is fueled by trusted, governed and semantically enriched data.

The Reality of Growth: As AI adoption grows, complexity is inevitable. Progress helps you manage that complexity by providing the tools to move from "speed of deployment" to "enterprise-level sustainability" without losing momentum.

Find your stage. Build your roadmap. Move from pilots to trusted outcomes.

Get the maturity model.

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