Agentic AI

Generative AI (or traditional AI) produces content and insights in response to prompts, with humans required to guide, validate, and approve the outputs. Agentic AI builds this by enabling AI agents to recognize when tasks need attention, make decisions, and orchestrate multi‑step workflows. While these agents can independently initiate and execute parts of a process, humans remain essential for oversight, governance, and final accountability. Generative AI assists; Agentic AI acts, but always within a framework that keeps humans in control.
 

Agentic AI enhances business performance by improving decision‑making, reducing manual work, and accelerating the execution of complex workflows. Because these systems can autonomously recognize tasks, take action, and coordinate multi‑step processes, they help organizations operate faster, smarter, and with fewer errors.

The impact is broad and spans multiple functions, including:

• Tax & Finance: Automated compliance, forecasting, reporting.
• Risk Management: Proactive risk detection and anomaly monitoring.
• Procurement: Reduced contract leakage, improved productivity, autonomous market analyses.
• Enterprise Productivity: Empowering teams to automate workflows and orchestrate tasks without needing deep technical expertise.

For example: EY’s very own deployment of 150 AI agents supports 80,000 professionals, driving over 3 million tax compliance outcomes annually and redesigning 30 million processes.