Agilentic

Est. 2024 · San Francisco Bay Area

AI that works in production. Delivery that ships.

Agilentic is an independent consultancy for AI-driven workflow automation and Agile/DevOps delivery, aimed at financial services and healthcare teams.

20+ years in regulated industries 50+ posts on Agile & AI 6,000+ LinkedIn followers 2 AI hackathon teams led

Does this sound familiar?

Where delivery and AI adoption get stuck

  • Your Agile transformation added ceremony, not speed.The rituals happen, but features still take quarters.
  • AI pilots never make it to production.Demos impress, then stall on integration, data or approvals.
  • People still copy data between systems.Manual handoffs eat hours every week and introduce errors.
  • Compliance reviews stall every release.Risk and delivery teams work against each other instead of together.
  • Teams use AI tools with no guardrails.Everyone experiments, nobody knows what is safe to rely on.
  • Consultants leave slides, not systems.The strategy made sense. Nothing in production changed.

If two or more of these ring true, Agilentic can help. See the services

Services

AI automation and faster delivery, from one practitioner

Agilentic closes the gap between the strategy deck and the working system. Each service draws on 20 years of delivery at Citi, Wells Fargo, AIG, HCA Healthcare and NTT DATA.

Automation

AI & workflow automation

Hands-on builds that move routine work to agents and low-code workflows.

  • Automation blueprints on n8n and make.com
  • AI assistants on the OpenAI API
  • Rapid MVP prototyping with AI coding tools
  • Self-hosted automation infrastructure

Delivery

Agile/DevOps delivery

Helping teams plan, deliver and measure work at scale without drowning in ceremony.

  • Scaled Agile adoption across teams of teams
  • Dual-track Agile: discovery alongside delivery
  • Azure DevOps and Jira workflow design
  • Delivery metrics and OKRs for Agile teams

Enablement

Workshops & upskilling

Teaching leaders and teams to put AI tools to work safely and effectively.

  • AI leadership workshops
  • Hands-on generative AI upskilling
  • Hackathon facilitation
  • Onboarding teams to AI coding tools

Why work with Agilentic

Senior experience, hands on the keyboard

Practitioner, not slide decks

Our team builds the workflows and automations it recommends, so advice comes with a working prototype, not a presentation.

20 years in regulated industries

Delivery and controls work at Citi, Wells Fargo, AIG and HCA Healthcare means speed never comes at the expense of risk and compliance.

Built for handover, not lock-in

Automations run on open, self-hostable tools your team can inspect and extend, with documentation and training included.

How it works

From first call to working result in three steps

  1. Book a 30-minute intro call

    Tell our team where delivery or automation is stuck. You leave with a clear next step, whether or not you work together.

  2. We scope and build a focused pilot

    One team or one workflow, scoped in writing, then built fast. The same approach our team uses to lead hackathon teams from problem framing to working prototype.

  3. Your team takes it over

    Documentation, training and a clean handover, so the result keeps running and your people know how to extend it.

Book a call with Martin30 minutes, no obligation.

Proof

Selected work, 2024–2026

Advisory

Pro bono advisory

Advised a dental practice, a New York City school and early-stage startups on workflow automation, AI adoption and Agile delivery.

Automation

Automation blueprints

Designed and published 5+ automation blueprints on n8n and make.com for common IT and business workflows.

Hackathons

Two AI hackathons

Led three-person teams at Bolt's World's Largest Hackathon (2025) and Kiroween (2025), from problem framing to working prototypes.

Writing

Thought leadership

Built a LinkedIn audience of 6,000+ and published 50+ posts on Agile, automation and AI agents.

Speaking

Executive advocacy

Panelist on AI leadership at the UC Berkeley AI Leadership Accelerator, April 2026.

Infrastructure

Built in-house first

Ran Agilentic's own operations on self-hosted automation and agent infrastructure, the proving ground for every tool recommended to clients.

From the blog

Selected writing

Eight posts from the Agilentic blog, from GenAI in the software lifecycle in spring 2024 to AI agents and AppGen platforms by the end of the year.

Posts open as archived copies on the Internet Archive.

Toolbox

The stack behind the work

Delivery

Scaled AgileScrumKanbanAzure DevOpsJiraOKRs

Automation

n8nmake.comPegaREST APIsSelf-hosted infra

AI

OpenAI APIClaude CodeAI coding assistantsAgent frameworks

Data

PythonSQLTableauPower BIExcel

Timeline

Milestones

From an Agile/DevOps practice to hands-on AI builds, 2024 to 2026.

  1. Agilentic founded

    An independent practice for Scaled Agile, DevOps and AI-assisted delivery, built on 20 years in banking, insurance and healthcare transformation.

  2. Website and blog launch

    Weekly writing on Scrum, scaled Agile roles, product ownership and delivery metrics.

  3. The writing turns to AI agents

    A series on GenAI in the SDLC, AI assistants built on the OpenAI API, agent platforms and AppGen tools.

  4. World's Largest Hackathon, presented by Bolt

    Led a team from problem framing to a working AI prototype.

  5. Kiroween hackathon

    Led a second team through a five-week AI build sprint.

  6. UC Berkeley AI Leadership Accelerator

    Panelist on AI leadership in the three-day executive program, April 13–15. Program page

Founder

Martin Vonderheiden

Most of the market is split between slide-deck strategists and pure developers. I sit in the middle, on purpose.

I've spent 20+ years directing risk, controls and technology transformation in some of the world's most complex, regulated industries, leading enterprise programs at Citi, Wells Fargo, AIG and HCA Healthcare.

I'm also a hands-on practitioner of AI-native development. I design, build and run agent workflows myself on self-hosted n8n and Model Context Protocol (MCP) infrastructure. Because I build the systems, I understand the real-world cost and technical reality of putting AI into production. That bridge between executive-level strategy and technical execution is what Agilentic was built on.

I have advised on AI leadership at UC Berkeley Haas School and led workshops at Stanford for 270+ Silicon Valley leaders and professionals. I work in English and German.

  • Oracle Certified Professional: OCI Generative AI
  • AWS Certified AI Practitioner
  • Microsoft Certified: Azure AI Fundamentals (AI-900)
  • ISC2 Certified in Cybersecurity (CC)
  • SAFe 6 Practice Consultant (SPC)
  • ASQ Certified Six Sigma Black Belt (CSSBB)
  • PMP: Project Management Professional

MS Industrial Engineering & Business, RPTU Kaiserslautern

FAQ

Common questions

Who do you work with?

Mainly financial services and healthcare teams: delivery leaders, product owners and operations managers who need automation to stick and delivery to speed up. Agilentic also advises startups and small organizations getting started with AI and workflow automation.

What does a first engagement look like?

It starts with a 30-minute intro call. If there is a fit, the next step is a focused pilot on one team or one workflow, scoped in writing before any work begins.

Do you work remotely?

Yes. Work runs remotely across US time zones. In-person workshops in the San Francisco Bay Area are possible by arrangement.

Which tools and platforms do you use?

n8n, make.com and Pega for automation; the OpenAI API and AI coding assistants for AI builds; Scrum and Kanban on Azure DevOps or Jira for delivery. Recommendations follow your stack, not a vendor preference.

Get started

Ready to get started?

Pick a time for a 30-minute call with Martin, or send a message and our team will reply personally.