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I hear a version of the same story in almost every client conversation. The executive team approved the AI budget because the pilot was flawless. Six months into production, the agent that used to work is quietly getting things wrong, and nobody signed up to fix it. The pilot created confidence. The absence of a lifecycle plan killed the return.

Pilots run in a stable world: one dataset, one workflow, one version of the API, with no organizational change happening around them. Production runs in a moving one. Strategy shifts, data drifts, systems update, and nothing about the agent adjusts unless someone built it to. That gap is where most agentic AI dies, and it’s a management problem, not a model problem.

The organizations asking, “Is agentic AI overhyped?” are usually the ones that watched a great pilot turn into a decaying production system. The question they should be asking is: Who owns this agent’s lifecycle six months from now?

MIT’s Project NANDA put a number on this that stopped me cold. Its 2025 report found that roughly 95% of organizations deploying generative AI had yet to realize any measurable financial return. Not slow returns. No measurable P&L impact. Move from generic GenAI into agentic AI, systems that don’t just draft an email but actually execute multi-step decisions on their own, and that risk doesn’t shrink, it compounds. The missing piece isn’t a better model. It’s the operational discipline to manage AI after deployment. What’s missing is a discipline: AI Agent Lifecycle Management.

Last week attending Fortune Brainstorm Tech @ Aspen CO, while it was wonderful to witness the enthusiasm around AI, what really surprised me wasn’t what I learned. It was how many conversations confirmed something I wrote six months ago.

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