Report – Everest Group & R Systems: Agentic AI 2026 – The Midmarket Playbook for Scale
Grounded in data from ~200 mid-market enterprise leaders.
Every model, every agent, every autonomous action is only as good as the human judgement behind it.
At EXIQO™, people don’t step in at the end. They guide the process from the start.
Delivered by AIEV-proficient teams operating within real enterprise environments.
Driven by disciplined, AI-enabled governance embedded across SDLC.
Shifted from contractor
dependency to
in-house proficiency.
120+ enterprise
AI programs,
governance built in.
EXIQO™ embeds policy, evaluation, and accountability directly into AI-driven workflows, so execution stays controlled and reliable.
AI can generate. It can accelerate. But without the right people behind it, it doesn’t deliver outcomes that hold. At EXIQO™, AI is directed, governed, and validated by experts who know what it takes to make systems work in the real world.
Every EXIQO™ practitioner has delivered AI in live environments. They know what holds up under scale, compliance, and real-world pressure, not just what works in a demo.
Before AI does anything, we understand how your business runs. Your data, your workflows, your constraints. Because AI is only as effective as the context behind it.
Our experts move fast, but never blindly. Governance, human checkpoints, and audit trails are built in from day one, so every outcome is reliable, explainable, and ready to scale.
A global e-commerce brand with 50M+ monthly users was bleeding velocity. Slow releases, high defects, manual workflows, and security concerns around AI adoption. EXIQO deployed the GenAI100 program — and rewrote the delivery story.
PR links, deployments, and coaching logs. Progress is proven through real work, not self-reporting.
Aspirant → Beginner → Builder → Champion. Every level is earned through demonstrated capability, not tenure.
Compliance isn’t optional. Every practitioner must meet governance standards before advancing.
43 checkpoints across 8 groups, covering everything from requirements to operations.
Top-tier practitioners don’t just deliver, they shape outcomes. They build accelerators, mentor teams, and drive decisions with executive alignment.
Progress is based on steady delivery over time, not one-time wins. Each level reflects how consistently someone performs in real projects.
Understands the basics of using AI safely and is ready to get started.
Uses AI for tasks but checks and reviews everything before it moves forward.
Uses AI across the full development process, from start to finish.
Helps teams use AI better and scales what works across projects.
Critical actions move forward only with the right human approvals in place.
When AI confidence drops, decisions are automatically routed to experts.
Experts can step in anytime to correct, guide, retrain,
or refine the system.
Every action is tracked and visible, so teams always know what happened and why.
Humans can instantly stop, override, or roll back any agent
safely when needed.
Every level (P1–P4) is earned through actual work, not certifications or self-assessment.
The AIEV model spans 8 dimensions, going far beyond basic AI literacy.
Applied across 120+ AI programs globally, in real conditions that demand scale, control, and reliability.
30 minutes with an EXIQO™ expert to understand where AI actually fits in your stack, and what to do next.
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.
