Lean Agentic AI

Minimizing Cost, Carbon, and Complexity

Unlock the blueprint for smarter, leaner AI — built to cut costs, boost efficiency, and reduce environmental impact.

The Hidden Costs of Agentic AI

When Smart Gets Wasteful

Agentic AI promises scale and productivity but often conceals a multitude of challenges—inefficient workflows, suboptimal tool integration, excessive retry logic, bloated token and memory usage, ineffective model switching, and weak governance. These factors collectively drive up costs and energy consumption.

Making autonomous AI lean requires rethinking every aspect of system design—from workflow optimization and advanced tooling to robust governance and operational resilience.

A Transformative Mindset for Agentic AI

Redefining Efficiency, Cost, and Sustainability

In a rapidly evolving AI landscape, building lean agentic systems isn’t just about reducing components—it’s about adopting a holistic, transformative mindset.

Lean Agentic AI challenges conventional paradigms by integrating efficiency, sustainability, and innovative architectural strategies into every layer of system design. This book rethinks how we approach resource management and operational resilience in AI.

Key Insights Include:

✓ Strategic planning for cost and carbon control
✓ Holistic architectural frameworks for resilient AI
✓ Advanced techniques that go beyond simple agent reduction
✓ Integrating sustainability into core design principles
✓ Evaluates 10+ popular frameworks and architecture patterns for efficient cost control
✓ Incorporates governance for Agentic AI

A Must-Read for Adopters

Why Lean Agentic AI is Essential

As AI becomes the backbone of intelligent systems, understanding resource use is vital to avoid hidden waste and ensure sustainable growth.

This book equips builders, architects, and decision-makers with the essential strategies for efficient AI deployment.

Embrace a new era of lean, purposeful AI.

Meet the Author

Navveen Balani

A technology entrepreneur and thought leader with over two decades of experience pioneering efficient and sustainable AI solutions. As a Google Cloud Certified Fellow and prolific author, his work shapes responsible AI practices.

➤ Watson AI India Labs Leader (2011): Led early AI prototypes
➤ Designed and deployed high‑scale AI applications for Fortune 50 clients
➤ Champion of responsible, sustainable AI
➤ Co‑Chair, Standards Working Group at Green Software Foundation
➤ Google Cloud Fellow & LinkedIn Top Voice in AI
➤ Founding member of multiple startups, building cutting-edge technology platforms from the ground up and driving them to scale.

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"Lean Agentic AI: Minimizing Cost, Carbon, and Complexity is the first book to holistically address the challenge of building efficient, cost-effective, environmentally friendly, and responsible agentic AI systems."

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