WORLDAUTONOMOUS AGENTS
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THE NEXT CHAPTER OF ENTERPRISE INTELLIGENCE

Intelligence that
moves work
forward.

Explore how autonomous agents connect knowledge, decisions and action—with people in control.

01
Understand the agents

From instructions to coordinated action.

02
Design for control

Permissions, oversight and accountability.

03
Evaluate the outcome

Clear assumptions. Measurable workflows.

FROM POSSIBILITY TO PRACTICE

A new way to think
about getting work done.

Agents can plan and act across connected systems. The opportunity starts with choosing where autonomy adds value.

01 / CUSTOMER OPERATIONS

Make every handoff count.

Explore service triage, account preparation and case resolution with explicit escalation points.

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02 / ENTERPRISE OPERATIONS

Coordinate across the business.

Connect requests, approved knowledge and repeatable actions across IT and employee services.

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03 / KNOWLEDGE WORK

Keep the process moving.

Research, prepare and monitor recurring work while people retain judgment over consequential decisions.

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AUTONOMY WITH ACCOUNTABILITY

More capable agents.
Clearer boundaries.

Useful autonomy is designed around a defined task, the right information and permission to take specific actions.

01

Define the scope

Identify the process owner, allowed actions and success criteria.

02

Build in the checkpoints

Route exceptions and consequential actions to an accountable person.

03

Observe and improve

Track outcomes, failures, cost and the quality of every handoff.

INTERACTIVE / AGENT SCENARIO PLANNER

What could your
workflow look like?

Change volume, handling time, review requirements and costs to explore a planning scenario.

12,000tasks per month*
616 hmodelled capacity / month*
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*Illustrative defaults: 6 min/task, 70% coverage, 1 min review and 10% fallback. Capacity is not guaranteed savings.

RESEARCH & INTELLIGENCE

Signals worth understanding.

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ServiceNow / 15 October 2026

Verifiable authority for agent actions

ServiceNow announced AI Passport for verifying authorized agent scope at runtime.

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Microsoft / 15 October 2026

Persistent agents for shared business processes

Microsoft announced agent accounts, business process memory and event triggers in Copilot Studio.

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Salesforce / 15–17 September 2026

Enterprise capabilities become accessible to agents

Dreamforce coverage describes Headless 360 extending enterprise capabilities through open standards.

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Primary-source research reviewed 13 November 2026. Product announcements are attributed to their publishers.

AN INDEPENDENT INDUSTRY PERSPECTIVE

One connected ecosystem.
Many paths forward.

Understand the roles of agent platforms, business systems, orchestration and governance before selecting an approach.

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Built for informed exploration.

World Autonomous Agents demonstrates an enterprise research and planning destination. The tools use transparent assumptions; no agents connect to your business systems.

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Turn a workflow into a plan.

Start with the task. Make the assumptions visible.

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