Agentic Workflow Examples: Six Patterns You Can Run

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• Agentic workflows examples, and what makes one runnable — Most published examples are diagrams. A diagram of boxes and arrows is a drawing of a shape; it is not something you can run, and it will not tell you what to do on the Tuesday when a retrieval step …
• Agentic workflows AI: the three places the model actually decides — Before the examples, it is worth naming how little of each one is actually model-driven.
• Example 1 — the agentic workflow builder: research to a decision — The first pattern is the one most teams describe when they say "agentic": a question goes in, a recommendation comes out, and several sources were read on the way.
• Example 2 — the agent pipeline: nightly batch enrichment — The second pattern is the one with the least glory and the best return: a list of records goes in, the same record comes back enriched, and it runs while nobody is watching.
• Example 3 — orchestration frameworks in a review loop — The third pattern produces a patch instead of an answer: something is drafted, something reviews it, and the pair iterate until the result passes checks or a person takes over.
• Example 4 — multi agent systems examples: fan out, then merge — The fourth pattern is the only one where more than one worker is genuinely justified, and the justification is parallelism rather than a second opinion.
• Example 5 — an agentic workflow that routes, then escalates — The fifth pattern sits in front of a queue and decides what happens to each item.
• Example 6 — AI workflow automation for a monitoring watch — The sixth pattern runs on a schedule and mostly does nothing, which is exactly what you want from it.
• The six examples, in one table — The table is the shortest useful summary of the page: for each pattern, what goes in, the failure you must handle before anything else, and the single number that says the run worked.
• Where SmartGate fits — Every example above assumes the same two things: one place that sees the model call, and one record of what it cost.
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