A 30-Day Agentic AI Roadmap: From First Use Case to Production

A week-by-week plan for shipping an agentic AI workflow with guardrails, measurement, and iterative rollout.

Published: 12/28/202514 min read

A 30-Day Agentic AI Roadmap: From First Use Case to Production

If you want results, you need a plan that is practical.

This 30-day roadmap is designed for teams that want to ship an agentic workflow safely.

Week 1: Pick the workflow and map the system

  • Choose one workflow with a clear outcome
  • Document current steps and pain points
  • Identify systems involved and available APIs
  • Define success metrics

Deliverable: a workflow spec with inputs, outputs, and stop conditions.

Week 2: Build tools and guardrails

  • Implement tool endpoints with validation
  • Add permission checks
  • Add structured logging
  • Build a dry-run mode

Deliverable: a tool layer you can trust.

Week 3: Add the agent loop and evaluation

  • Implement decide, act, verify
  • Build a small test set from historical cases
  • Run evaluations and fix common failure modes

Deliverable: an agent that completes tasks in a controlled environment.

Week 4: Roll out and iterate

  • Launch to a small percentage of traffic or a single team
  • Require approvals for high-risk actions
  • Track metrics and handoffs
  • Expand capabilities based on evidence

Deliverable: a production workflow that saves time.

Closing thought

Shipping agentic AI is not a single model choice.

It is careful systems work. The payoff is automation that compounds.