# Agentic workflow

URL: https://www.getdynamiq.ai/glossary/agentic-workflow

> A business process modeled as a graph of steps where at least one step is an agent that reasons and chooses its own actions, not a fixed script.

A business process modeled as a graph of steps where at least one step is an agent that reasons and chooses its own actions, not a fixed script.

An agentic workflow mixes deterministic steps, a database lookup, a validation, a branch, with at least one agent step that plans and acts rather than following instructions written in advance for every case. The result is a process with the structure a regulated organization needs and the adaptability a purely scripted automation cannot offer.

Traditional automation handles the predictable parts of a process well but breaks the moment a case does not fit the script. An agentic workflow keeps the fixed checkpoints a regulated process requires, intake, validation, sign-off, while letting the agent step handle the judgement calls in between.

A document review workflow has fixed steps for intake and filing, with an agent step in the middle that reads a contract and decides which clauses need a closer look from a reviewer.

**In Dynamiq**, the workflow canvas mixes deterministic nodes, such as choice, map and validator nodes, with agent nodes in a single graph, versioned on every save. Describe the workflow in plain language to get a first draft instead of a blank canvas, and every run of the finished workflow is traced end to end.

## See it in Dynamiq

-   [Agent Builder](https://www.getdynamiq.ai/product/agents)

## Related terms

-   [AI agent](https://www.getdynamiq.ai/glossary/ai-agent)
-   [Agent orchestration](https://www.getdynamiq.ai/glossary/agent-orchestration)
-   [Tool calling](https://www.getdynamiq.ai/glossary/tool-calling)
-   [Human in the loop](https://www.getdynamiq.ai/glossary/human-in-the-loop)

## See an agent on your own workflow.

Bring a process and its documents. Our engineers will show you how Dynamiq runs it, in your environment or ours.

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