Short answer: Emanuele Melis says agentic workflows start with the autonomy slider at zero, where the agent only drafts and researches; as knowledge builds in Context One, the slider moves right, and 30% to 40% autonomy changes daily work.
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From Episode 46: We Tested Claude 4 Fable and Deployed Enterprise Agents Without a Single Data Migration, starting at 8:14.
Sam Nadler [8:13]: Why? I wanna dive into AI One. Emanuele, and maybe it's me, but if you don't mind, I would love like a kind of an ELI5 or an ELI10 version of what AI One does. I feel like I have an understanding, but, I think I need to hear from you.
Emanuele Melis [8:31]: Yeah. Absolutely. So imagine you're a large enterprise. You have processes that touch multiple teams and the process could be anything. Let's imagine I am onboarding as a customer for this larger enterprise and my onboarding process, I have to fill in a questionnaire, the questionnaire goes to team a, then team a passes on to team b for some other checks and teams b comes on to team c and this is all money. Right? There's teams that go across. And now team d finds an error. They can fix it themselves. They'll have to send it back to team a. Now team a can fix the error. They have to send it back to the sales team sends it back to me. It takes a whole month to do something very simple. Well, what we found is that, actually, you don't need all this hands over hand over between people. You could have software. You could have agents that help you and cut through a good portion of all those scenarios where effectively just saying, well, let's send the agents to as much as possible. And then the human only comes in at the very last mile. We have this concept we call the autonomy slider. Right?
Emanuele Melis [9:38]: You start every agentive workflow with the autonomy slider set to zero. So the agent really has no autonomy. It would draft things. Would do research. It would present you something but then you as a person acting there, you will take the next action. But slowly but surely, the agent will build confidence, you build confidence. Build knowledge, the knowledge lives in Context One and the autonomous slider starts to move a little bit to the right. So maybe it's 5%, maybe it's 10%. It may never get to 100% and that's fine. Right? But what does it mean for a large organization if the autonomous slider moves to 30%, 40%? Then that starts to make a difference in the everyday life of the people and the enterprise. And what we do really is help these large companies go through that transition and through those processes. My team specifically is the one that will come to you and help you install it, get onboarded, and develop these first use cases on top of Context One.
