PoC (Proof of Concept)

A PoC is a small-scale effort to validate, at minimal cost, whether a technical approach or use case is actually viable — it's not yet complete enough for production use.

In AI agent adoption, a typical PoC takes about 2-4 weeks to produce a working version used to validate use-case viability and data quality. A common misconception is pushing a PoC straight into production — a PoC usually hasn't handled exception cases, access control, or formal monitoring yet, and needs further integration work before it's production-ready.