"Software Engineering and vibe coding are transforming into Agentic Engineering, the new discipline for building Production-Grade intelligent systems."

— Yi Zhou, Founder & CEO, AEI

About the AEI

The Institute Defining Agentic Engineering™

The Agentic Engineering Institute™ (AEI) establishes Agentic Engineering™ — the AI-native discipline for building production-grade autonomous systems. AEI is the world’s first professional institute dedicated to advancing this discipline.

As organizations deploy increasingly autonomous AI systems, most enterprise AI initiatives still fail to reach reliable production. The core challenge is not model capability, but the absence of a unified engineering discipline for building and governing autonomous systems in real-world environments.

Agentic Engineering defines that discipline.

AEI advances the discipline through standards, education, certification, and global collaboration with practitioners and organizations.

AEI stewards the Agentic Engineering Body of Practices (AEBOP™) — the code-of-practice standard for designing, building, operating, and governing agentic systems, distilled from hundreds of enterprise AI deployments in regulated and mission-critical environments.

Founded by Yi Zhou, an award-winning Chief AI Officer, AEI is guided by a Founding Council of AI architects and enterprise executives responsible for large-scale and high-consequence AI systems.

Headquartered in Seattle, AEI connects a global community of practitioners and organizations shaping the future of Agentic Engineering.

Our Vision

Humans direct AI, not the other way around.

Our Mission

Define and establish Agentic Engineering™ to ensure human control as AI scales.

Our Approach

AEI advances Agentic Engineering™ as an AI-native discipline for enterprise systems.

We engineer cognition, runtime governance, and trust as first-class properties.

We enforce runtime constraints that bound autonomy.

We verify production-grade quality attributes across reliability, security, safety, and scalability.

Our Core Values

The Principles That Guide the Discipline of Agentic Engineering

Engineering Rigor

Intelligence must be engineered with discipline.

Trust by Design

Safety and reliability are engineered, not assumed.

Human in Control

Agency belongs to people. AI amplifies it, not replaces it.

Standards Matter

Standards turn good practice into great outcomes.

Impact over Hype

Real systems. Real value. Real results.

Advance Together

The discipline grows through collective expertise.

AEI Founding Council & Leadership

Yi Zhou

Founder & CEO

Orlando Parish

Founding Member

Teresa Duran

Founding Member

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Seattle-based. Serving a global community of Agentic AI professionals, enterprises, and ecosystem partners.