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2026 priorities

The agent programs enterprise leaders are funding right now.

Six agent use cases reflecting where 2026 budgets are moving: agents that take action in systems of record, supervision of an AI workforce, and governance you can put in front of compliance.

A financial services operations team reviewing account servicing and dispute cases at their workstations.
Customer-Facing AI AgentsFinancial ServicesAutonomousAmazon ConnectAmazon Lex

Action-taking voice agent for billing and payments

Payments, disputes in progress and balance actions complete in the voice channel, with clean escalation when policy or risk rules trip.

Workflow
  1. Intake
  2. Act in Core banking
  3. Update Payments
  4. Escalate exceptions
  5. Measured

Transactions completed in channel · 15–25 pt containment lift over answer-only bots

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A team lead coaching an agent on a BPO contact center floor while reviewing a quality dashboard.
Customer-Facing AI AgentsBPOSupervisedGenesys CloudNICE CXone

Control plane for a hybrid human and AI agent workforce

Operations manages AI capacity the way it manages headcount, with per-client reporting clients can audit.

Workflow
  1. Intake
  2. Act in CCaaS routing
  3. Approval gate
  4. Update WFM
  5. Measured

Single capacity view across human and AI agents · cost per contact reported by agent type within 1 quarter

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A health payer operations team reviewing claims and member eligibility on screen together.
Customer-Facing AI AgentsHealth PayersSupervisedFive9NICE CXone

Quality management agent that scores every interaction and routes on it

Sensitive member calls land with agents who score well on that behaviour, and coaching lands while the gap is fresh. Disputed scores and routing changes require a quality-leader review.

Workflow
  1. Intake
  2. Act in Quality management
  3. Approval gate
  4. Update CCaaS routing
  5. Measured

100% scored interactions · quality signals applied to routing within the shift · compliance risk reduced

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Insurance claims handlers reviewing first-notice-of-loss photos and claim files while one adjuster takes a call.
Process & Operations AI AgentsInsuranceSupervisedAWS BedrockKore.ai

RPA replacement agents that call APIs instead of scraping screens

Automations survive vendor releases, and the exception queue becomes the only thing operations watches.

Workflow
  1. Intake
  2. Act in Policy and claims APIs
  3. Approval gate
  4. Update Workflow orchestration
  5. Measured

40–60% lower automation maintenance cost per process · 50%+ fewer break-fix incidents per release

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A nurse coordinator and a patient-access specialist working scheduling and prior authorization queues at a hospital operations desk.
Process & Operations AI AgentsHealthcare ProvidersSupervisedAWS BedrockAzure OpenAI

Audit-grade agent observability and tracing

Agents clear compliance review because each action can be reconstructed, and regressions surface before they reach patients or payers.

Workflow
  1. Intake
  2. Act in Agent runtime
  3. Approval gate
  4. Update Trace store
  5. Measured

100% of cases reconstructable step by step · drift detected before member impact · 30% shorter compliance approval cycle

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A financial services operations team reviewing account servicing and dispute cases at their workstations.
Employee-Facing AI AgentsFinancial ServicesSupervisedSalesforce AgentforceCopilot Studio

Converged IT and HR employee service agent

Employees ask once, and joint journeys such as onboarding or role change complete without manual hand-offs. Pay, leave and privileged-access actions run behind manager or HR approval.

Workflow
  1. Intake
  2. Act in ITSM
  3. Approval gate
  4. Update HRIS
  5. Measured

Single intake for 100% of internal requests · 40–60% fewer cross-team reassignments · 20–30% lower cost per internal case

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Agent pattern: Assistive — drafts and recommends, a person sends. Supervised — acts in your systems behind approval gates. Autonomous — completes the work end to end within policy and escalates exceptions.

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Insurance claims handlers reviewing first-notice-of-loss photos and claim files while one adjuster takes a call.
Customer-Facing AI AgentsInsuranceAutonomous

FNOL intake agent that assembles adjuster-ready claims

Problem. First-notice-of-loss intake is long and expensive, and incomplete data pushes rework and cycle time into the adjuster's queue.

Agent design. Agent conducts structured loss intake across voice and digital, collects photos and documents, validates coverage against policy admin, sets severity and books the adjuster.

Outcome. Adjusters open complete, coded claims instead of chasing the customer for missing facts. Coverage disputes, injury and suspected-fraud indicators escalate to an adjuster immediately.

Acts in. Claims system · Policy admin · Document capture

Workflow
  1. Intake
  2. Act in Claims system
  3. Update Policy admin
  4. Escalate exceptions
  5. Measured
35% lower intake cost per claim · 2x faster claim assignment
Works with
Five9Kore.ai
Insurance claims handlers reviewing first-notice-of-loss photos and claim files while one adjuster takes a call.
Enterprise Agentic AIInsuranceSupervised

SMB underwriting agent for commercial P&C submissions

Problem. SMB submissions are too low-margin to staff properly, so carriers decline business or lose it to slower turnaround.

Agent design. Underwriting agent extracts submission data, runs appetite and eligibility checks, prices tiers against the rating engine and drafts the quote for underwriter approval.

Outcome. Straight-through submissions are quoted same day with the underwriter retaining the bind decision.

Acts in. Policy admin · Rating engine · Submission inbox

Workflow
  1. Intake
  2. Act in Policy admin
  3. Approval gate
  4. Update Rating engine
  5. Measured
Quote cycle time from 2–3 days to under 4 hours · 20–30% more submissions quoted per underwriter
Works with
Azure OpenAI
Insurance claims handlers reviewing first-notice-of-loss photos and claim files while one adjuster takes a call.
AI Agent FoundationsInsuranceAssistive

Policy knowledge foundation for underwriting agents

Problem. Form and state-variation errors carry direct loss cost, and no agent can be trusted with issuance until retrieval is form-aware.

Agent design. Retrieval over the policy corpus with form-aware chunking, state and line-of-business filters and a regression evaluation set run on every content update.

Outcome. Underwriting agents cite the right form and state variation inside the workflow. Underwriters review cited passages before an issuance decision is made.

Acts in. Policy forms library · State filings · Underwriting workbench

Workflow
  1. Intake
  2. Draft in Policy forms library
  3. Human sends
  4. Measured
30–40% faster issuance · 50%+ fewer form and endorsement errors
Works with
Azure OpenAI
Insurance claims handlers reviewing first-notice-of-loss photos and claim files while one adjuster takes a call.
Process & Operations AI AgentsInsuranceSupervised

Issuance and endorsement agent across policy systems

Problem. Issuance and endorsements bounce between underwriting, operations and policy admin, with re-keying at every hop.

Agent design. Agentic workflow orchestrates issuance across systems, generates documents, validates against the rated position and routes only genuine exceptions to operations.

Outcome. Policies and endorsements complete without manual re-keying between systems. Underwriter approval is required on any endorsement outside standard limits.

Acts in. Policy admin · Rating · Document generation

Workflow
  1. Intake
  2. Act in Policy admin
  3. Approval gate
  4. Update Rating
  5. Measured
60%+ fewer manual touches per policy · lower operating cost per endorsement
Works with
Copilot Studio
Insurance claims handlers reviewing first-notice-of-loss photos and claim files while one adjuster takes a call.
Process & Operations AI AgentsInsuranceAutonomous

Claims assembly agent for FNOL back-office

Problem. Adjuster capacity is spent reformatting FNOL inputs, looking up coverage and coding severity before real claim work begins.

Agent design. Agent assembles adjuster-ready packages from FNOL inputs and policy data, codes severity and assigns to the right queue automatically.

Outcome. Adjusters start on complete, coded claims and cycle time drops without new headcount. Complex, disputed and high-severity claims escalate to an adjuster with full context.

Acts in. Claims system · Policy admin · Document repository

Workflow
  1. Intake
  2. Act in Claims system
  3. Update Policy admin
  4. Escalate exceptions
  5. Measured
50% shorter assignment cycle time · 20–30% adjuster capacity released to complex claims
Works with
Copilot Studio
Insurance claims handlers reviewing first-notice-of-loss photos and claim files while one adjuster takes a call.
Enterprise Agentic AIInsuranceAutonomous

Claims intake process agent for insurers

Problem. Multi-form intake with document uploads and coverage checks produces incomplete submissions and avoidable rework.

Agent design. Kore.ai agent orchestrates conversational intake, collects and validates documents, verifies coverage in policy admin and assembles the adjuster-ready package.

Outcome. Complete, validated claims reach adjusters without back-and-forth. Incomplete or high-severity submissions escalate to an adjuster with the gaps listed.

Acts in. Claims system · Policy admin · Document capture

Workflow
  1. Intake
  2. Act in Claims system
  3. Update Policy admin
  4. Escalate exceptions
  5. Measured
35% faster first-touch handling · 25% fewer incomplete submissions
Works with
Kore.ai
Insurance claims handlers reviewing first-notice-of-loss photos and claim files while one adjuster takes a call.
Employee-Facing AI AgentsInsuranceAssistive

Major incident and change agent

Problem. During major incidents, responder time goes to assembling context rather than restoring service, and every minute carries business cost.

Agent design. Agent retrieves incident history, runbooks and CMDB impact, drafts situation summaries, stakeholder comms and change risk notes for the incident manager to approve.

Outcome. Faster stabilization and consistent stakeholder communication without added coordination headcount.

Acts in. ITSM · CMDB · Runbooks

Workflow
  1. Intake
  2. Draft in ITSM
  3. Human sends
  4. Measured
30% faster incident comms cycle · reduced downtime cost per major incident
Works with
Azure OpenAICopilot Studio
Insurance claims handlers reviewing first-notice-of-loss photos and claim files while one adjuster takes a call.
Employee-Facing AI AgentsInsuranceSupervised

Workplace and facilities request agent

Problem. Desk bookings, badge access and maintenance requests arrive by email, go untracked and leave property spend impossible to manage.

Agent design. Single intake agent classifies the request, books resources, raises facilities work orders and confirms completion back to the employee.

Outcome. One place to ask for anything about the workplace, with routing, status and demand data captured automatically. Spend and safety requests require facilities-manager approval before the agent acts.

Acts in. Facilities / IWMS · Desk and room booking · Access control

Workflow
  1. Intake
  2. Act in Facilities / IWMS
  3. Approval gate
  4. Update Desk and room booking
  5. Measured
10–20 point first-contact resolution lift on workplace requests · demand data behind property decisions
Works with
Copilot StudioMicrosoft Dynamics 365
Insurance claims handlers reviewing first-notice-of-loss photos and claim files while one adjuster takes a call.
Customer-Facing AI AgentsInsuranceAutonomous

Supervisor agent orchestrating policy, billing and claims

Problem. Policy, billing and claims each sit behind a separate bot or queue, so one customer question becomes three conversations and three cost centres.

Agent design. A supervisor agent routes intent to specialist agents for policy servicing, billing and claims, sharing context and authentication across the whole interaction.

Outcome. One conversation resolves multi-system requests without repetition or bot-to-bot transfer. Coverage, payment and complaint exceptions escalate to a licensed human with the case intact.

Acts in. Policy admin · Billing · Claims system

Workflow
  1. Intake
  2. Act in Policy admin
  3. Update Billing
  4. Escalate exceptions
  5. Measured
30–45% of multi-intent issues resolved in a single contact · 20–30% lower total cost per issue
Works with
Genesys CloudKore.ai
Insurance claims handlers reviewing first-notice-of-loss photos and claim files while one adjuster takes a call.
Process & Operations AI AgentsInsuranceSupervised

RPA replacement agents that call APIs instead of scraping screens

Problem. Screen-scraping bots break on every UI change, and maintenance now costs more than the automation saves.

Agent design. Reasoning agents call documented APIs and tools instead of driving screens, with schema validation, retries and a human queue for genuine exceptions.

Outcome. Automations survive vendor releases, and the exception queue becomes the only thing operations watches.

Acts in. Policy and claims APIs · Workflow orchestration · Exception queue

Workflow
  1. Intake
  2. Act in Policy and claims APIs
  3. Approval gate
  4. Update Workflow orchestration
  5. Measured
40–60% lower automation maintenance cost per process · 50%+ fewer break-fix incidents per release
Works with
AWS BedrockKore.ai
Insurance claims handlers reviewing first-notice-of-loss photos and claim files while one adjuster takes a call.
Employee-Facing AI AgentsInsuranceAssistive

Contract review and clause triage agent

Problem. In-house counsel reviews high volumes of routine agreements while the business waits days for standard NDAs and vendor terms.

Agent design. Agent compares incoming contracts to the clause playbook, proposes fallback language for standard deviations and escalates novel or high-risk terms to counsel with a redline and rationale.

Outcome. Routine agreements move at business speed while counsel focuses on genuinely risky terms.

Acts in. CLM · Clause playbook · Matter management

Workflow
  1. Intake
  2. Draft in CLM
  3. Human sends
  4. Measured
50–70% faster turnaround on standard agreements · 2–3x contracts reviewed per lawyer · outside counsel spend avoided
Works with
Azure OpenAIAWS Bedrock
Insurance claims handlers reviewing first-notice-of-loss photos and claim files while one adjuster takes a call.
Employee-Facing AI AgentsInsuranceSupervised

Procurement intake and vendor onboarding agent

Problem. Requesters do not know which forms, approvals or security reviews a purchase needs, so intake bounces between procurement, security and legal.

Agent design. Conversational intake determines category, spend threshold and risk tier, assembles the right approval and diligence path and chases outstanding vendor documentation automatically.

Outcome. Requests arrive complete and correctly routed, and vendor onboarding stops stalling on paperwork.

Acts in. Procurement / ERP · Third-party risk · Vendor master

Workflow
  1. Intake
  2. Act in Procurement / ERP
  3. Approval gate
  4. Update Third-party risk
  5. Measured
30–45% shorter intake-to-PO cycle · 50% fewer incomplete requests · maverick spend reduced
Works with
Copilot StudioMicrosoft Dynamics 365
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