Research into two-party agentic delivery
Outsource, retain, insource, or use global capability centers on a common basis.
AAO-116 / Economics and Value
Executives should evaluate agentic providers for useful capabilities the organization could not previously obtain economically, while preserving evidence, authority, and complete cost. A new capability needs its own business case rather than an invented comparison with a process that never existed.
AAO-110 / Commercial and Vendor Management
Investment executives should govern the confidential context that provider agents receive, infer, and retain. Portfolio intentions, client circumstances, research priorities, and investment rationale can require protection even when individual source documents are publicly available.
AAO-100 / Commercial and Vendor Management
Executives should choose retained, captive, provider, or combined delivery based on the capabilities needed for the complete function. Agentic AI changes the relative importance of labor cost, context, authority, domain judgment, control, and reusable operating knowledge.
AAO-078 / People and Capability
Executives should retain enough domain judgment, evidence access, and decision authority to direct an outsourced agentic service. Contractual ownership of the outcome is insufficient if the buyer can no longer recognize a wrong answer, challenge a provider, or organize a replacement.
AAO-028 / Data, Technology, and Security
Executives should buy the least complex delivery architecture that meets the business need at an acceptable cost and risk. An agentic design earns its place by outperforming feasible simpler alternatives on the same accepted outcome.