Adopt AI-Gentic Mindset
From Discovery to Production — A Practitioner's Field Guide for Engineers, Analysts, Product Managers, Architects & Executives building Production-Grade AI-Agentic Workflows
By Sathya TNV
1. What Does "AI-First" Actually Mean? 2. The Anatomy of an IT Use Case 3. Understanding Agentic AI 4. The Agent Duality Paradigm 5. Strategic Tensions & Goal Bucketing 6. From Developer to Agentic Architect 7. The AICRAFT Transformation Framework 8. Decision Trees & Anti-Pattern…
§ Highlights
- 200+
- Patterns shipped
- 14
- Steps to production
- 10
- Industry playbooks
OWASP LLM Top 10 · EU AI Act · NIST AI RMF · ISO 42001
§ What you'll learn
- The AICRAFT framework — a transformation playbook for taking a use-case from discovery to production agent.
- How to design the agent duality (Agent-as-Tool vs Production Agent) and when each is the right fit.
- Data quality, retrieval (RAG, Graph RAG), and memory architectures that survive 10M+ document corpora.
- Multi-agent orchestration patterns — MCP, A2A, identity, authorization, and the runtime request lifecycle.
- A 14-step build roadmap with decision trees, anti-patterns, and the 10-minute pragmatic lens.
- Guardrails for ten industries — including the regulatory frames OWASP LLM Top 10, EU AI Act, NIST AI RMF, ISO 42001.
§ Who it's for
- Engineers and architects shipping production-grade agents — not demos.
- Product managers building agent-native features, deciding scope vs roadmap.
- CTOs and VPs setting the AI transformation strategy and the guardrails to ship on.
- Anyone past "hello world" with LLMs who now has to make it reliable and safe.
§ Contents
- 01What Does "AI-First" Actually Mean?
- 02The Anatomy of an IT Use Case
- 03Understanding Agentic AI
- 04The Agent Duality Paradigm
- 05Strategic Tensions & Goal Bucketing
- 06From Developer to Agentic Architect
- 07The AICRAFT Transformation Framework
- 08Decision Trees & Anti-Patterns
- 09The 14-Step Build Roadmap
- 10The 10-Minute Lens — A Pragmatic View
- 11Data Quality for AI Pipelines
- 12Building the Technology Stack
§ Editions
Digital · PDF
Free · No paywall
Paperback
Coming soon · Ships worldwide
§ Early readers
A working architect's reference — the kind of book that sits open on your desk while you build, not on a shelf.
— Early reader · AI platform engineer, Fortune 50
Finally, a book that takes 'agentic' seriously as engineering, not as marketing. The 14-step roadmap alone is worth the price.
— Early reader · Director, ML platform
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