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Eccellere 7-Stage Agentic AI Model

L4StrategyOperating modeldiagnosticStages 1 to 5

Reference model

The Eccellere 7-Stage Agentic AI Maturity ModelA staircase of seven rungs rising left to right: prompt marketplace, prompt workflows, skill.md, event and schedule connections, flow orchestration, autonomous operation and coded agents. An arrow shows more autonomy and more value, with more structure, trust and guardrails needed at each rung. A note says each rung rests on the one below.1SharedpromptsPromptmarketplace2Chained promptsa person runsPromptworkflows3Written-downskills the AIfollowsskill.md4Runs on atrigger or ascheduleEvent andscheduleconnections5Skills and toolsin flows withapprovalsFloworchestration6Agents do wholetasks; peoplesuperviseAutonomousoperation7Purpose-builtagents in codeCoded agentsTHE LADDERMore autonomy, more value —and more structure, trustand guardrails neededEach rung rests on the one below: skip one and what you build above it is fragile.

Seven rungs, from using prompts to running agents. Each stage asks for more structure, more trust and more care than the last.

About this model

A ladder for how a business uses AI, from borrowing ready-made prompts to running purpose-built agents. Each rung rests on the one below: you cannot safely connect AI to your systems before you have written down how the work is done, or let agents run it before there are guardrails and people watching.

Eccellere — the 7-Stage Agentic AI Maturity Model (proprietary) · Eccellere framework

How to read it

  • For each stage say where the business is: not started, trying it, in regular use, or embedded in how the work is done — and give one real example.
  • Your stage is the highest rung where every rung up to it is in regular use. Anything in use above a gap is a warning: autonomous work resting on no written skills is fragile.
  • Aim for the next rung, not the top: name what stands in the way, the two or three moves that would get you there, and who checks the AI’s work as it takes on more.

What this does

Places you on Eccellere's own AI adoption ladder — from prompt marketplace use, through workflows and skill.md methodologies, to fully autonomous agents.

When to use it

Startup through Maturity — revisit whenever you adopt a new AI capability.

What happens next

Feeds the Target Operating Model (L5) and the Balanced Scorecard's Learning & Growth perspective.

Golden thread

Builds on ←

    A starting point: it needs no earlier tool.

    Feeds into →

    • sevens
    • bsc

    Framework library: Digital and AI (layer L4), lifecycle stages 1 to 5.

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    Hand-built by Eccellere and reviewed by Eccellere on 02/11/2026. Guidance, not advice: apply your own judgement.