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Why control is the next frontier for agentic AI

A Valcon viewpoint by Jasper van Ooijen, Senior Manger, AI & Data | Puck Veen, Senior Consultant, Consulting | Koko Visser, Partner, Group Head of AI

Read the full whitepaper here.

Agentic AI is moving fast, and turning it into enterprise value requires more than deployment. In Valcon’s whitepaper, The next step in agentic AI is control, we argue that the organisations gaining real impact are those defining clear boundaries for where agents can operate, how decisions are governed and how value is measured.

Five areas that determine whether agentic AI scales

In the paper, Koko Visser, Jasper van Ooijen and Puck Veen identify five areas of control that determine whether agentic AI scales successfully:

Portfolio
Workflow
Platform
Economics
Risk

Together, they help organisations focus investment on the right opportunities, redesign work end to end, reuse capabilities across the enterprise, manage costs with discipline and govern autonomy without slowing innovation.

From capability to competitive advantage

The key message is simple: autonomy without boundaries rarely scales. As access to AI models and tools becomes increasingly universal, the competitive advantage will lie in execution – the ability to steer agents effectively, embed them into redesigned workflows and make new ways of working stick. Control does not constrain innovation; it turns agentic capability into repeatable economic value.

Click here to read the full whitepaper.

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