5 November 2026 | 10:30 AM CET / 08:30 AM GMT

Agent-Agnostic, Outcome-Accountable: A New Commercial Model for Enterprise Software Delivery

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Agentic Software Engineering: From Paying for Effort to Paying for Outcomes

Coding agents such as Copilot, Devin, Claude Code and Codex are converging in capability faster than most enterprises can re-architect around them. Increasingly, they are a choice of execution layer, not a lasting differentiator. The real distinction is whether the delivery and commercial model around them is disciplined and transparent enough for a provider to stand behind the result: cost, speed, quality and risk.

At the same time, enterprises are buying commodity software while building the capabilities that differentiate their business, and moving from traditional full-stack systems to composable, headless architectures. These shifts create smaller, faster units of work and raise expectations for outcome-based software delivery, with providers accountable for results, not just effort.

In this 40-minute panel on agentic software engineering, Everest Group’s Nitish Mittal joins Sutherland leaders to examine what must be standardized to make that accountability credible, and how Sutherland’s combined business and technology capabilities connect engineering delivery to business outcomes.

What You’ll Learn

  • How enterprises are shifting from off-the-shelf solutions to bespoke, agentic capabilities, and from full-stack to headless architectures
  • Why IT-led and business-led buyers have different commercial expectations, and how outcome accountability changes commitments
  • What to standardize before making outcome-based commitments at scale: the unit of work, quality gates, telemetry and agent interfaces
  • What agent-agnostic delivery means in practice: portability across models and AI engineering platforms
  • How to measure productivity, flow, quality, AI consumption and business outcomes, and make delivery repeatable across a portfolio
  • How the CIO’s role is evolving from technology manager to business partner and value creator

Register now to join the live webinar on 5 November 2026 at 10:30 AM CET

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Analyst Perspective from Everest Group

Sutherland Leaders