Agency of Agents

People and AI, creating value in harmony

Agency of Agents is a model for bringing AI into organisations as a complementary capability — augmenting teams, reducing manual effort, and increasing consistency, while preserving human skill, judgement, and accountability.

People and AI working together as partners
People and AI working together as partners

Why a new approach is needed

AI pilots struggle to scale.

Adoption lags behind capability.

Automation without governance creates risk.

Teams are overloaded, not under-skilled.

The challenge is not technology — it is how AI is introduced into everyday work.

Tools and pilots contrasted with augmented capability
Tools & Pilots vs Augmented Capability

What we mean by an Agency of Agents

Agency of Agents is a model where specialised AI agents augment teams, with work designed around FTE-led accountability and FTA-based augmentation, while ADAM provides the framework through which people and agents are delivered, managed, and evolved responsibly together over time.

Agents support skills and specialisms.

People remain accountable.

Effort is reduced, quality is preserved or improved.

Teams augmented by specialised agents
Teams augmented by specialised agents

Humans and agents, working together

FTEs remain accountable.

FTAs augment capability.

Augmentation is the default.

Autonomy increases deliberately.

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FTE and FTA working in harmony
FTE and FTA working in harmony

How value is created

Within the Agency of Agents, value is created through a continuous loop:

DAVE: Deliver · Adopt · Validate · Evolve

DAVE is the continuous cycle through which people and agents create value together — delivering usable capability, enabling real adoption, validating value and trust, and evolving deliberately over time.

DAVE loop: Deliver, Adopt, Validate, Evolve
DAVE loop: Deliver, Adopt, Validate, Evolve

Governed by ADAM

To ensure the Agency of Agents remains safe, scalable, and sustainable, it is governed by ADAM — the AI Delivery and Management framework.

ADAM provides structure for:

introducing agents

validating value

managing autonomy

evolving capability responsibly

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ADAM stabilising the DAVE loop
ADAM stabilising the DAVE loop

Designed to evolve over time

Agency of Agents recognises that AI capability matures gradually. Progression is guided by adoption, validation, and confidence — not speed or hype.

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Maturity journey toward the North Star
Maturity journey toward the North Star

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Agency of Agents provides a calm, deliberate way to create value with AI — bringing people and agents together in partnership.

The Model

The practical model behind Agency of Agents — explaining how AI is introduced, trusted, and evolved safely over time, without losing control or accountability.

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Humans & Agents

How people and AI work together as partners — with humans remaining accountable and agents augmenting capability, effort, and consistency.

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Decision Framework

A clear way to decide when and how to use AI — helping teams choose the right level of automation, autonomy, and control for each situation.

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ADAM

The AI Delivery and Management framework that provides structure for introducing agents, managing autonomy, validating value, and evolving capability responsibly.

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Maturity Model

A simple progression showing how organisations move from early experimentation to sustained value — guided by adoption, validation, and confidence.

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North Star

The aspirational end state where AI becomes a trusted, shared capability — owned by teams, enabled by stewardship, and embedded into everyday work.

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