Business logic stored in employee heads, PDFs, and Slack threads is logic the model cannot enforce. The fix is not better prompts. It is structured rules — decision tables, rule engines, policy-as-code — that the agent calls instead of guesses at.
60% of agentic projects stall on data, not models. A 30-minute, three-tier gate — Foundation, Workflow, Autonomous — that decides what autonomy your data can actually support, with a retrofit pattern for legacy systems you cannot rewrite.
Eight in ten agentic AI projects stall on data, not models. Score your environment on ten dimensions before the agent surfaces the gaps. Four tiers, calibrated thresholds, structural fixes ordered before operational ones.