# Making Your Data Ready for Agentic AI

DevFeed: [Making Your Data Ready for Agentic AI](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/making-your-data-ready-for-agentic-ai-4420.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://martinfowler.com/articles/making-data-ready-for-agentic-ai.html>)

Author: Martin Fowler (martin@martinfowler.com)

Published: 2026-08-27T13:11:00Z

Content type: article

Language: en

Sources: [Martin Fowler](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/martin-fowler.md>)

Topics: [data](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/data.md>), [Artificial Intelligence](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/ai.md>), [observability](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/observability.md>), [Orchestration](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/orchestration.md>), [dashboards](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/dashboards.md>)

Tags: [agentic-ai](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/agentic-ai.md>), [ai](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/ai.md>), [article](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/article.md>), [dashboards](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/dashboards.md>), [data](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/data.md>), [observability](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/observability.md>), [orchestration](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/orchestration.md>)

## AI overview

The article explains that useful agentic AI depends on reliable, trusted data rather than agent frameworks alone. It proposes a data foundation, a context layer, and an access layer, with continuous observability and governance to make data suitable for autonomous agents.

## Source excerpt

Lots of organizations are excited about what AI can do to streamline their processes, save money, and juice margins. But AI's capabilities are founded on the data that AI accesses, and for many organizations that foundation is little more than sand. Pramod Sadalage and Prem Chandrasekaran write about how to build a reliable foundation of data that can be accurate and trusted. more...