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title: "Agentic AI: definition | Rex glossary"
description: "AI that works toward a goal over several steps, deciding what to do, using tools and checking results, rather than producing a single response."
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# Agentic AI

AI that works toward a goal over several steps, deciding what to do, using tools and checking results, rather than producing a single response.

Generative AI writes an answer when asked. Agentic AI acts: it can read a customer email, look up the account in the ERP, decide a reply is needed, draft it and record what it did.

In finance, that independence needs boundaries: clear procedures, permissions limited to what the task needs, human approval for sensitive actions, and a record of every decision.

## Further reading

- [Generative AI vs agentic AI in finance: what's the real difference→](https://www.rex.inc/resources/ai-ar/generative-vs-agentic-ai-finance)

## Related terms

- [AI AR agent Software that carries out accounts receivable work, such as reading emails, chasing invoices and matching payments, by reasoning through each case rather than following a fixed script.](https://www.rex.inc/resources/ai-ar/what-is-an-ai-ar-agent)
- [Human in the loop A design in which an automated system hands defined decisions to a person to review or approve before it acts.](https://www.rex.inc/resources/ai-ar/human-in-the-loop-ar-automation)
- [Supervised autonomy Giving an AI agent independence in stages: it starts by proposing actions for approval and runs on its own only as its work proves reliable.](https://www.rex.inc/glossary/supervised-autonomy)
- [Audit trail A chronological record of every action taken on an account, who or which agent took it, and why, so decisions can be reviewed later.](https://www.rex.inc/resources/ai-ar/ai-ar-audit-trail-explainability)

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