2025 was the year many organisations discovered that “smart” AI agents still fail when they are forced to run on yesterday’s enterprise plumbing, and 2026 will belong to the leaders who rebuild the nervous system, not just the brain, by redesigning workflows for an agentic-first world, shifting from rigid request-response patterns to event-driven fluidity, and putting three practical pillars in place: semantic telemetry agents can actually read, stateless and asynchronous APIs that support self-correcting long-running work, and a metadata layer that turns clean data into context-rich decisions, so if you want a clear, no-nonsense blueprint for moving beyond pilots and breaking through the production wall, read the full text.

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