How to Build an Agentic Platform
What you will learn
✓ What building an agentic platform really takes, and what it costs, before you commit a budget
✓ The top 8 reasons builds fail, and how to break through them, not just avoid them
✓ How to tell if an AI system can be trusted with real decisions: watch one built live and tested on real cases
The Agenda
What you are building
The full picture, in plain terms
- Every piece a working platform needs, on one simple map
- The parts most plans miss, and what they cost
- How to estimate your own plan before you commit money to it
Why builds fail
Eight real stories from our own build
- The top 8 reasons builds fail, and how to break through them, not just avoid them
- Why early demos look better than they are
- What Azure, AWS, Google Cloud, and Databricks give you, and what they don't
The live build
Watch it happen, start to finish
- Alex builds a working system live, from an empty screen
- We test it on real cases while Bryan asks the hard questions
- You get four simple questions to judge any vendor, including us
Why we run this session
We want to be considered when you evaluate your options. So we run this event series as openly and as vendor-neutral as we know how, so you can make a genuinely informed decision, whichever way you go. Everything taught is yours to use anywhere, and you get to know our team along the way, whatever you decide.
Built for every seat at the table
The decision, the build, and the outcome each get their own takeaways. It is written to be watched together.
The Executive Sponsor
You decide what to build from: leave with clear costs, clear risks, and a plan you can defend to your board.
The Platform Leader
You run the build: leave with the full map to check your plan against, and what the big cloud platforms do and do not give you.
The Operations Leader
You run the operation this lands on: leave knowing what changes for your team and what stays in their hands.
Your hosts, a double act
Bryan Johnson
Alex Tataran
Honest answers to what you are probably wondering
What's in it for Otera?
Will this fit my use case?
I own the P&L, not the architecture. Will I be able to follow it?
We are already mid-build. Is this still for us?
Should I read the whitepaper first?
Wednesday, October 21. Bring your build plan.
45 minutes plus an open floor for your own questions. You leave with the blueprints, the failure points, and the tests to ensure your build is successful.
Register for October 21
One question on the form: the one you most want answered live. Bring a hard one.