Traditional AI—what most businesses use today—is reactive. It waits for a prompt. You give it data, it gives you a result. Think of chatbots, search engines, or recommendation systems.

Agentic AI, by contrast, is goal-driven and autonomous.

Agentic systems;

Interpret high-level objectives,

This means you’re not just telling software what to do—you’re telling it what you want, and it figures out the how.