The Real Foundation of Agentic AI: Trusted Data + Context

Some conversations stay with you because there is no hype in them, just real answers. That is how my interview on The Ravit Show with Thomas Benjamin, SVP of Product Development and Engineering at Boomi, felt at Boomi World 2026.Thomas was clear about why most companies cannot get past their first pilot. They treat scaling as a model problem, when the real issue is everything underneath. The data. The context. The way agents are governed. That is where pilots quietly fall apart.We also talked about what agentic context actually means inside a real enterprise. Thomas explained it in a way that made it obvious why putting AI on top of messy data will keep giving you unreliable answers, no matter how strong the model is.The part I keep thinking about was on partnerships. No single company owns the full stack today. Thomas was honest about what makes a partnership real versus what makes it just a logo on a slide. That difference matters more than most people admit.My takeaway. The winners in this next phase will not be the ones with the flashiest agents. They will be the ones who took the time to get the boring layers right.#data #ai #BoomiWorld #theravitshow #BoomiAmbassador