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The Agentic AI Taxonomy, Part 6: SaaS Application Agents
Summary Part 6 of the Numberline Agentic AI Taxonomy series covers SaaS Application Agents, which are pre-built AI agents embedded in platforms such as Salesforce, Workday, or Atlassian. These often arrive unexpectedly via automatic SaaS product updates rather than a deliberate deployment decision. The article’s central framework is agent identity: whether an agent acts “on-behalf-of” […]
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The Agentic AI Taxonomy, Part 5: Office Suite Agents
Quick summary: Microsoft 365 Copilot and Gemini for Google Workspace are SaaS-embedded agents, created by software vendors and shipped natively inside their…

The Agentic AI Taxonomy, Part 4: Workspace-Embedded Agents
Welcome back to our series exploring the Numberline Agentic AI taxonomy, one category at a time. If you’re just joining us, you…

The Agentic AI Taxonomy, Part 3: Sandboxed Agents
Welcome back to our series exploring the Numberline Agentic AI taxonomy, one category at a time. If you’re just joining us, you…

The Agentic AI Taxonomy, Part 2: General-Purpose Chat Assistants
Welcome back to our series walking through the Numberline Agentic AI taxonomy, one category at a time. If you missed our earlier…

We Moved Fast and Fixed Stuff: Our Revised Agentic AI Taxonomy
As we noted in our previous blog post, we’ve spent some time learning, thinking, and revising our Agentic AI taxonomy, which we’re…

Move Fast and Fix Stuff: Revising Our Agentic AI Taxonomy
Things move fast in our world. In just the past few weeks, we’ve watched a steady stream of Agentic AI releases that…