{"product_id":"b0h4y8stgj","title":"The AI Agent Gap: Why Most Enterprise AI Agents Never Reach Production — and the Operating Discipline That Closes It (The AI Operating System + The Agent Gap Book 2)","description":"\u003cp\u003eMost enterprises are piloting AI agents. Very few of those pilots reach production. This book is about closing that gap.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe demo always works. An agent triages the inbox, drafts the report, answers the customer; the room nods, the budget clears, a launch date gets a slide. Then the launch date moves. And moves again.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe evidence points the same way. A 2025 MIT study of enterprise AI found that about 95 percent of generative-AI pilots had little or no measurable impact on profit and loss, and traced the failures to how organizations integrate and run these systems, not to model quality. A survey of 1,150 senior IT and business leaders at large organizations (Camunda, 2026) found that only 11 percent of agentic AI use cases reached production in the past year.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe AI Agent Gap  names that space precisely: the distance between it worked when I tried it and it works every time, for everyone, under load, when something upstream breaks, at a cost we can defend. Andreas Anding calls it  the Production Chasm , and this is the operating discipline for crossing it.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eDrawing on twenty years in digital transformation and agents he runs in production himself, Anding gives technical leaders a complete operating model: The Reliability Ladder:  why reliability is a designed operating property, not a model property, and how to climb it Evaluation as Infrastructure:  how you actually  know  an agent works, with golden sets, regression gates, offline and online evals Observability, cost, and latency under control:  traces not logs, budget gates, real unit economics Governance and human-in-the-loop  as a production  enabler : control surfaces and EU AI Act-ready design The Agent Operating Model:  who owns agents, the Agent Ops function, runbooks, and the discipline that moves one agent to a fleet A  Production-Readiness Assessment  and a concrete  30\/60\/90-day plan  you can run on Monday Written from the operator's chair, not the engineer's.  Not a training manual and not a vendor pitch: the operating layer between them, the one almost nobody writes down.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eBook 2 of the series.  For the leadership framework, start with  The AI Operating System .\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eA demo proves possibility. Production demands reliability. The two are not the same skill, and this book is about the second one.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"ANT","offers":[{"title":"Ebook","offer_id":67924942356725,"sku":"YSL54715","price":4.19,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/8774\/8597\/files\/61FX7SuOKLL._SY1500.jpg?v=1793673959","url":"https:\/\/www.newbooks.store\/products\/b0h4y8stgj","provider":"NewBooks","version":"1.0","type":"link"}