From Prototype to Production: A Reference Design for Industrial AI
Most industrial AI initiatives are still running pilots, years in. This report is built on the ones that scaled.
Drawn from 100+ deployments across energy, chemicals, and manufacturing, this is Cognite's reference design for industrial AI - the grounding layer that gives industrial agents operational context, the agentic workflows that earn adoption across shifts and disciplines, and the sequencing logic that gets operators from prototype to production fast.
Why context, not model capability, is the real bottleneck - and the architecture that solves it for industrial environments
A leaderboard of three agentic workflows proven to stand up in weeks and deliver measurable payback fast
Four honest lessons - including why most agents fail despite capable models, why thousands of small agents lost to a handful of great ones, and what survives every model upgrade
