Agentic AINo. 013
Who manages the agents?
Multi-agent systems went from 6% to 25% in a single quarter. Once agents work with each other, who can say why something went wrong, or right?
KPMG · 12 Oct 2026→
Every Monday
One read a week,
and why it matters.
I read a lot of research on agentic AI, consulting and how organisations actually change. Most weeks one piece is worth your time, so every Monday I pick it, pull out the number that matters and say what it means if you are the one who has to act on it. Every one links straight out to the original, so you can go and read it yourself.
The latest signal
Who manages the agents?
Multi-agent systems went from 6% to 25% in a single quarter. Once agents work with each other, who can say why something went wrong, or right?
Read signal no. 013 →Every signal
The New ConsultingNo. 012
When they leave, who runs it?
Forward-deployed engineering is a new name for an old question: when the people who built it leave, who takes over?
Gartner · 5 Oct 2026→
Agentic AINo. 011
What did your agents do yesterday?
Everyone is counting AI agents, and far fewer organisations can say which ones exist, what each one can access and what it did yesterday.
BCG · 28 Sept 2026→
Agentic AINo. 010
The data rules are not what is stalling your AI
Nearly every enterprise has stalled an AI project in the last year, and the AI was not the problem. The data was built for a monthly report, not for an agent.
Cloudera · 21 Sept 2026→
Leadership & CultureNo. 009
The fear of AI job cuts keeps outrunning the payroll
A year ago 32% expected AI to cut jobs at their organisation. 14% saw it happen, and the forecast went up anyway.
McKinsey · 14 Sept 2026→
InnovationNo. 008
Logistics bought the tools and skipped the operating model
The money went in, the strategy exists, the budget exists. What did not arrive was a system.
BCG · 7 Sept 2026→
Agentic AINo. 007
Cheaper tokens, bigger bill
We see new models making it cheaper and increased competition reducing costs. Gartner are saying the opposite is happening.
Gartner · 31 Aug 2026→
Leadership & CultureNo. 006
Adoption is not transformation
Near-universal AI use at the point where work gets produced, and almost none where it gets judged.
Gartner · 24 Aug 2026→
Agentic AINo. 005
The failure was authorisation, not containment
Britain’s AI Security Institute let its agents onto the real internet on purpose. What broke was the authority boundary, not the sandbox.
UK AI Security Institute · 17 Aug 2026→
Agentic AINo. 004
The public got ready first
Across 44 countries the public has granted permission for AI in public services. The operating answers are the part still missing.
BCG · 3 Aug 2026→
Leadership & CultureNo. 003
The AI rehire
Very few organisations measured what their people were actually doing before removing them, so the value only became visible once it had gone.
CNBC · 27 Jul 2026→
Career LessonsNo. 002
Borrowing against your own pipeline
The UK government flags the fall, admits it cannot prove AI caused it, and argues for acting anyway.
UK Government (DSIT) · 20 Jul 2026→
Agentic AINo. 001
Agents get real when they touch money
An agent that can browse is a demo. An agent that can pay is infrastructure.
Economy Middle East · 13 Jul 2026→
Escape the Deck
One honest read every fortnight on what agentic AI is doing to consulting, and what to do about it. For people moving from advice to outcomes, rebuilding a firm, or done buying decks. No hype, no fluff.