Agentic Interfaces vs Copilots

Every pitch deck I’ve seen this quarter mentions “agentic AI” somewhere in the first three slides. It’s the new magic word. Investors love it. Founders love it. Gartner named it their top technology trend for 2025, predicting that 15% of daily work decisions will be made autonomously by 2028.

I’m building AI products right now at DreamFlare, and I think most companies are getting this wrong. Not because agentic AI isn’t real — it is — but because they’re skipping the step that actually works.