Enterprise Architecture 4.0
Enterprise Architecture reimagined for Agentic AI
Jesper Lowgren
Enterprise Architect | Agentic Thought Leader | Author
Founder’s Message
Agentic AI changes everything
What EA40 is
Enterprise Architecture 4.0 is a new way to think about the enterprise in the age of intelligent, autonomous systems. It brings agentic architecture, design, and governance together so organizations can move with speed while staying coherent and trustworthy.
Why it matters
Technology is evolving faster than traditional methods can handle. EA40 gives leaders a clear, agentic framework to align people, data, and systems so they can innovate without losing control.
Why I care
I’ve spent my career at the crossroads of architecture and transformation. The old playbooks no longer work. EA40 is my answer to how we design for intelligence, autonomy, and emergence.
Where we go from here
This is just the beginning. I invite you to explore EA40, challenge it, and use it. Together, we can shape enterprises that are ready for an agentic future.
Agentic Architecture
The structural core that aligns signals, policies, and interactions, ensuring autonomy is built in, not bolted on.
- Message: Architecture is equilibrium — holding together what autonomy pulls apart.
- Forces: Compression (autonomy outward) vs tension (backbone & policies inward).
- Integrity: Emerges from distributed balance, not rigid frames.
- Failure: Collapse when tensions snap or are uneven.
Agentic Design
Designing from the agent’s perspective, embedding meaning and trust so systems can adapt and coordinate in real time.
- Message: Design is inversion — seeing through the agent’s eyes.
- Forces: Divergence & convergence, reframed through Authopy.
- Integrity: Emerges when design starts from inside the agent, not outside.
- Failure: Misalignment between human intent and agent cognition.
Agentic Governance
Policy, trust, and accountability made executable at runtime, keeping autonomous systems legitimate and transparent.
- Message: Governance is choreography — policy that runs inside the machine.
- Forces: Legitimacy at the core, radiating through concentric layers (Foundational → Evolutionary).
- Integrity: Emerges when rules, trust, provenance, and auditability flow dynamically across all layers.
- Failure: Fragmentation of compliance (rules on paper, none in runtime).
Agentic Data Backbone
Nine data types woven into one story, creating shared meaning that binds agents, trust, and action together
- Message: Nine data types, one story, shared meaning that sticks.
- Forces: Structural, contextual, behavioral, semantic, trust, policy, lifecycle, identity, interactional.
- Integrity: Emerges when every event carries a “passport” — actor, trust, provenance, and policy — enabling coherence across agents.
- Failure: Data fragmentation; agents drift into incoherence without a shared backbone.