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One guide system for dependable AI-enabled work.

Nine practical guides covering the operating decisions, engineering mechanisms and evidence needed to move from isolated AI use to governed organisational capability.

Engineering AI Adoption by Mark Jones

Engineering AI Adoption

How governance, architecture and agentic systems turn AI use into accountable value

Mark Jones

The book synthesises the research and nine-guide system into one operating design for governing, architecting and running agentic systems that create accountable value in practice.

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Field guide library

Nine practical field guides.

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Governing AI And Agentic Systems

A practical operating guide for qualifying AI use, governing delegation, preserving human accountability and creating a sanctioned path to value.

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Measuring AI Adoption And Impact

A practical guide to accountable outcomes, engineering-capacity evidence, AI attribution, RAG impact and full human-machine economics.

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The Agentic Engineering Operating Model

A practical operating model for human accountability, governed work classes, workflow bundles, evidence, approvals and continuous learning.

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Secure Agentic Engineering

A practical control guide for private code, tools, credentials, data, CI, cloud accounts and production-affecting agent workflows.

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AI-Ready Codebases

A practical repository-readiness guide for authoritative context, architecture, tests, deterministic gates and bounded agentic change.

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Agentic Engineering Patterns

A practical pattern catalogue for governed agentic engineering, bounded work classes, human accountability and independently verified evidence.

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Evaluating Coding Agents And Model Routing

A practical evaluation system for coding-agent outcomes, routing decisions, escalation value, tail economics and delivery impact.

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Local AI for Coding And Agentic Engineering

A practical guide to operating sanctioned local, cloud and hybrid model lanes with bounded authority, fallback and work-item evidence.

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Agentic Observability

A practical playbook for joining agent runs to machine consumption, human intervention, evidence, cost and accountable outcomes.

Research

The evidence base behind the guide system.

Radical Geek operating model for governed and measurable AI adoption

Research Paper

The AI Adoption Gap

A source-backed Radical Geek research paper on operational proof, delegability, evidence completeness and the operating capability required to turn AI use into durable business value.