Field guide

State of Agent Readiness 2026

A practical guide to testing one business workflow before you hand it to an agent.

An agent cited the right filing index and still returned the wrong date. This 11-page field guide takes three observations from our own test runs and turns them into a method: what to keep from every attempt, how to design the test around the actual job, and how to decide what a failed result means.

Inside the guide

Three observations from development runs: a citation attached to the wrong value, text that looked like a tool response, and a test question with two defensible answers
How to build test cases from the actual job, including jobs that write to records
How to run, repeat and grade attempts, and what each kind of check can establish
A two-page readiness worksheet for your own workflow