What is Agentic AI?

Answered across 3 episodes of The Best SEO Podcast

Edited and curated by Matthew Bertram, host of The Best SEO Podcast (produced by EWR Digital).

The short answer

A setup where small AI agents are built, strung together, and set in motion to handle tasks autonomously, freeing up human capacity for creative and strategic work.

How experts on the show define it

A setup where small AI agents are built, strung together, and set in motion to handle tasks autonomously, freeing up human capacity for creative and strategic work.

From Digital Marketing Revolution: Adapting to AI's Takeover with Bill Rice

AI set up by a human to execute a defined series of tasks autonomously, such as writing and posting blog content on a scheduled workflow, but still initiated and controlled by the user.

From AI Revolution in Marketing with Kevin Surace

An AI system that has memory, tools, and agency, meaning it can take its own actions either on a schedule or when triggered, without requiring a human to initiate each step.

From Agentic AI For Marketers With Sebastian Chedal

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