Jess Grogan-Avignon

Jess Grogan-Avignon is a London-based AI transformation leader at Accenture, focused on enterprise agentic AI products and business transformation. She is listed as Accenture’s Agentic Transformation Lead for the AI Engineer Europe talk “Most Enterprise Agentic Projects Are Doomed — Here’s Why,” and describes herself as an agentic AI product leader building AI agents for customer service and process automation.

Agentic AI Projects Fail When Governance Cannot Move at Machine Speed

Accenture’s Jess Grogan-Avignon and Jack Wang argue that many enterprise agentic AI projects fail not because the agent cannot be built, but because the institution around it cannot move fast enough to ship and learn from it. Drawing on their experience building an agentic application in two weeks and spending another year getting it into production, they say enterprises must recode governance, fund AI as a portfolio of bets, deliver through hypothesis loops, grant autonomy only as evidence builds, and treat live customer feedback as the defensible asset.

AI EngineerMay 28, 202611 min read