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Agentforce
Harnessing the Agency of AI to Scale, Grow, and Lead Any Industry
Martin Kihn (Author), Marc Benioff (Foreword by)
9781394349227, Wiley
Hardback, published 12 June 2025
240 pages
23.4 x 15.8 x 2.5 cm, 0.431 kg
Introducing AI agents, the groundbreaking third wave of AI's integration in the workforce Agentforce: Harnessing the Agency of AI to Scale, Grow, and Lead Any Industry tells you how companies can create and control their own AI agents and build a virtual workforce. It goes behind-the-scenes on how Salesforce built a platform to drive AI agents, solving problems like hallucinations and bias through a framework that gives agents strict roles, data sources, actions, guardrails and channels to reach customers. This book draws from extensive research and exclusive access to Salesforce's leaders and their ambitious plan to dominate the race to develop and own the AI agent space. In this book, readers will find information on: Agentforce: Harnessing the Agency of AI to Scale, Grow, and Lead Any Industry is an indispensable, forward-thinking resource on the subject for all leaders in business seeking to supercharge their organizations' initiatives through the latest developments in a rapidly advancing field.
Foreword by Marc Benioff ix Author’s Note xv Agentforce Kickoff, San Francisco xix 1 Call My Agent! 1 2 What Is Agentforce, Anyway? 5 3 How Does Agentforce Actually Work? 13 4 What Are Some Useful Things You Can Do with Agents? 27 5 Do You Need a Platform to Do Agents (and What’s a Platform, Anyway)? 35 6 Are Agents Really Different from Chatbots and Co-pilots? 45 7 What Are the Different Parts of Agentforce? 55 8 What Is the Einstein Trust Layer, and Why Do You Need It? 63 9 Why Do You Need Data Cloud for Agentforce? 69 10 What Is RAG, and Why Should I Care? 81 11 What Is the Atlas Reasoning Engine? 89 12 How Do You Control an Agent and Give It Orders? 99 13 How Do You Test an Agent in a Sandbox? 111 14 What Are Some of the Prebuilt Agentforce Agents? 119 15 How Do You Build a Custom Agent from Scratch? 133 16 What Is the Best Way to Come Up with Ideas for Agents? 143 17 How “Human” Should Your AI Agent Be? 157 18 How Do You Make Sure AI Is Governed? 161 19 How Do You Build a Business Case for Agentforce? 169 20 So What Are We Humans Going to Do Now? 177 21 How Can I Get Started with Agentforce and Learn More? 183 22 So What Was This Book All About, Anyway? 187
The Five Attributes of an AI Agent xiii
Endnotes 193
About the Author 207
Index 209
Subject Areas: Business & management [KJ]
