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Agentic Automation and AI Agents

Put AI agents to work on real processes, alongside the robots and APIs that execute reliably and the people who stay accountable, and keep them out of the pile of cancelled pilots.

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Also known as agentic AI, agentic process automation, AI agents for business processes

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50+Fortune 1000 organizations served with RPA
100+Tungsten Automation engagements
15+automation platforms supported
24x7x365bot and agent operations

What is Agentic Automation and AI Agents?

Agentic automation uses AI agents, software that can interpret a goal, reason over context, decide on steps and use tools, inside business processes. Agents handle judgment-heavy steps such as reading an exception, choosing the next action or drafting a response, while robots and APIs execute deterministic steps and people approve high-risk decisions. Orchestration platforms such as UiPath Maestro, Automation Anywhere Agentic Process Automation, SS&C Blue Prism WorkHQ and Microsoft Copilot Studio coordinate all three. TechTiera selects use cases, builds and evaluates agents, and governs them in production.

At a glance

Agentic Automation and AI Agents at a glance

What agents add
Handling exceptions, unstructured inputs and decisions that rule-based bots cannot
Platforms
UiPath Agent Builder and Maestro, Automation Anywhere AI Agent Studio, SS&C Blue Prism WorkHQ, Microsoft Copilot Studio, IBM watsonx Orchestrate, custom agents with open frameworks and MCP
Reality check
Gartner predicts over 40% of agentic AI projects will be cancelled by the end of 2027 due to costs, unclear value or weak risk controls
Controls
Evaluation sets, confidence thresholds, permission-scoped tools, human approval, tracing and audit
Good first use cases
Exception handling in finance, claims triage, IT service requests, supplier and customer correspondence
Related practices
TechTiera AI and ML consulting, ESM AI agents, custom AI applications
Services

What does TechTiera deliver for agentic automation?

Advice, build, migration and 24x7 operations from one accountable team.

Use-case selection

Candidate steps scored on judgment needed, volume, risk and data readiness, each with a baseline.

Agent design and build

Agents with scoped tools, instructions and context, on your chosen platform or custom frameworks.

Orchestration

Agents, robots, APIs and people combined in one governed process with clear hand-offs.

Evaluation and testing

Agents tested against real historical cases before they touch live work, then traced in production.

Agent governance

Inventory, approval, permissions, monitoring, cost control and audit for every agent.

Tool connectivity

Systems exposed to agents safely through APIs, automations and Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers.

Expertise

How TechTiera approaches agentic automation

Why so many agent projects get cancelled, and how ours do not

Gartner expects more than 40% of agentic AI projects to be cancelled by the end of 2027, citing escalating costs, unclear business value and inadequate risk controls. It also warns about "agent washing", where existing chatbots and RPA are simply relabelled. The projects we see succeed share four habits:

  • The agent does one job, such as classifying and resolving a known set of exceptions, not "run accounts payable".
  • Deterministic work stays deterministic. Posting, paying and updating master data go through robots and APIs with fixed rules.
  • Every agent has an evaluation set built from real past cases, and a threshold below which a person decides.
  • Cost is measured per case, including model calls and human review, against the baseline.

Agent, robot or person? A simple test for each step

If the step...Use
Follows fixed rules on structured dataRobot or API
Needs reading, judgment or choosing among options, with recoverable errorsAI agent with evaluation and thresholds
Has high financial, legal or customer impactPerson, supported by the agent's recommendation
Spans days or weeks and many partiesOrchestration (Maestro, APA, WorkHQ) holding state across all three

Typical use cases

  • Accounts payable exception resolution
  • Claims triage and next-best-action
  • IT service request resolution
  • Supplier and customer email handling
  • Order exception management
  • Compliance review preparation
Delivery approach

How is the work delivered?

  1. DiscoverProcess, volumes, rules, exceptions and value.
  2. DesignSteps per tool: API, bot, document AI, agent, person.
  3. BuildReusable components in short demoable sprints.
  4. TestHappy paths, exceptions and failures with real data.
  5. DeployControlled release, hypercare and a runbook.
  6. Run and improveROC monitoring and value reporting.
Why TechTiera

Why choose TechTiera for agentic automation?

Vendor-neutral across 15+ platforms

UiPath, Automation Anywhere, Power Automate, SS&C Blue Prism, Tungsten Automation, SAP, ServiceNow and open-source, so the tool fits the process, not the other way round.

Proven at enterprise scale

Trusted RPA services provider to 50 of the Fortune 1000, with a dedicated Intelligent Automation practice and center of excellence.

Document AI depth

A Tungsten Automation Gold Partner practice with 100+ engagements, plus ABBYY, UiPath and cloud document AI.

Agents with guardrails

Narrow use cases, evaluation sets, scoped permissions and cost tracking, so agents make it to production.

See related case studies · AI and Agentic AI consulting

Engagement models

Which engagement models are available?

Onsite, offshore or remote delivery for clients in North America, Europe, the Middle East and Asia Pacific.

Fixed-price automations

Defined scope and price per automation or wave, from design to hypercare.

Time and materials

Flexible capacity for discovery, proofs of concept and evolving requirements.

Dedicated team

A named automation pod working as an extension of your CoE.

Managed services

SLA-backed bot and agent operations, upgrades and enhancements on monthly terms.

Case studies

TechTiera automation case studies

Excerpts from published TechTiera client work.

Financial information · Tungsten Automation

Intelligent Web Crawling for Financial Intelligence and Business Contact Discovery

Reusable crawlers and domain-specific robots continuously collect, validate and consolidate public corporate and shareholder data, including N-PX proxy voting filings, cutting manual research effort.

Read the case study
Energy and power · Tungsten Automation

Intelligent Automation for Energy and Power Market Data Collection and Validation

Robots gather energy and power market data from multiple sources and validate it before it reaches analysts, replacing repetitive manual collection.

Read the case study
Electronics · Tungsten Automation

Intelligent Automation for Electronic Components BOM Documentation

Automation collects and structures electronic component documentation for bills of materials, giving engineering teams consistent, current component data.

Read the case study

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FAQs

Agentic Automation and AI Agents FAQs

What is agentic automation?

Agentic automation uses AI agents that can reason and choose actions inside business processes, orchestrated together with robots, APIs and people so judgment-heavy work can be automated under control.

How is agentic automation different from RPA?

RPA follows fixed rules. AI agents interpret context and decide what to do next. In practice they work together: agents decide, robots and APIs execute, and people approve high-risk steps.

Why do agentic AI projects fail?

Gartner predicts over 40% will be cancelled by the end of 2027 because of escalating costs, unclear business value or inadequate risk controls. Narrow scope, evaluation, governance and cost tracking reduce that risk.

Which platforms does TechTiera use for AI agents?

UiPath, Automation Anywhere, SS&C Blue Prism WorkHQ, Microsoft Copilot Studio and IBM watsonx Orchestrate, plus custom agents built with open frameworks and MCP where platforms do not fit.

Does TechTiera offer broader AI consulting?

Yes. TechTiera's AI and ML practice covers data, models and custom AI applications; this page focuses on agents inside automated business processes.

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