Report – Everest Group & R Systems: Agentic AI 2026 – The Midmarket Playbook for Scale
Grounded in data from ~200 mid-market enterprise leaders.
Faster operations. Smarter decisions. Greater control.
AI-powered execution across finance, HR, sales, legal, IT, supply chain, and procurement, so processes run seamlessly and teams focus on work that drives real business impact.
Build faster. Deliver predictably. Scale with confidence.
OptimaAI accelerates the entire SDLC, from requirements to release and brings speed, consistency, and reliability to enterprise engineering.
Clarity before change. Confidence in every step.
We make legacy systems easier to understand, so complex, opaque code becomes a clear foundation teams can confidently rebuild on.
R Systems & Everest Group reveal how Agentic AI is evolving, from assistive tools to systems that independently interpret goals, make decisions, and execute within defined guardrails. Drawing on insights from ~200 global mid-market leaders, this playbook shows how to scale AI adoption with strong governance and turn autonomy into measurable business outcomes.
Get clarity on your legacy system with greenfield-ready intelligence that turns brownfield complexity into a glass box, so modernization isn’t limited to A→B conversion.
AIEV-enabled ninjas + OptimaAI + governed methodology, turning AI from assistants into governed execution that transforms complexity into enterprise engineering velocity.
Velocity without proficiency is just speed. AIEV builds the AI-engineering proficiency enterprises need to move fast, govern well, and deliver outcomes that scale, engagement after engagement.
From pull request (PR) reviews to test generation and root cause analysis (RCA), OptimaAI’s engineering agents streamline development workflows with precision and speed.
Built-in controls that ensure every action stays compliant, secure, and aligned with defined policies from day one.
Expert oversight for key decisions and exceptions, ensuring AI stays aligned, accurate, and trustworthy.
Continuous monitoring and testing so AI behavior remains consistent, measurable, and easy to audit.
A practical approach where people, platform, and process come together, turning raw model intelligence into AI that is secure, governed, and ready for the real world.
We set up your environment, connect the right tools, and align prompts, evaluations, and guardrails to how your business actually operates.
A focused session to decide what needs to be built, integrated, or removed, so the solution fits your workflows naturally.
A dedicated build phase where we configure agents, connectors, human-in-the-loop flows, and safety checks to make everything work together seamlessly.
We move step by step from shadow mode to draft to controlled rollout, guided by clear KPIs so everything stays stable, compliant, and ready to scale.
A fully configured, governance-ready setup with agents, connectors, guardrails, tuned prompts, evaluations, and audit trails. Everything needed to go live with confidence.
Grounded in data from ~200 mid-market enterprise leaders.
EXIQO™, the AI Studio by R Systems combines enterprise context,…
RSI is a trusted software engineering and digital transformation services partner to global enterprises navigating technological change. RSI enables technology companies, SaaS platforms, and enterprises to solve real-world challenges, accelerate time to market, and scale AI-driven innovation across the full software development lifecycle and business automation. With proven AI fluency at every layer of the technology stack, RSI helps clients not only adopt AI, but operationalize it, embedding intelligence into products, platforms, and processes. RSI’s AI Studio, EXIQO, brings together AIEV-trained engineers (RSI’s proficiency-based certification framework across AI, to drive engineering velocity) and the enterprise-ready Optima AI platform to orchestrate and deliver AI-led transformation.
