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For most of the past decade, large companies bought technology help the same way they bought other services: they hired a firm to write software, staff a project, and hand back the finished work. That habit is now shifting, and one of the firms trying to get in front of the change is CI&T Inc. (NYSE: CINT), a global software and digital transformation company that on August 17, 2026 introduced a new offering built around what the industry calls agentic AI
The word agentic is worth pausing on, because it sits at the center of the company’s new pitch. Ordinary AI tools answer a question or draft a paragraph when asked. Agentic AI goes a step further. It plans a task, takes actions across different software systems, and adjusts as it goes, with much less human prompting along the way. In plain terms, it is software meant to carry a piece of work from start to finish rather than simply helping a person who does the work.
CI&T’s response to this shift is a program it calls Business Builders, paired with an offering named Agentic Enterprise Reinvention. The aim, in the company’s own account, is to build these AI-driven ways of working directly into a client’s core operations rather than running small experiments off to the side. The August launch extends a partnership CI&T struck earlier in the summer with Mistral, a privately held French developer of open-weight AI models.
That detail matters more than it may first seem. For years, much of CI&T’s revenue came from what the industry calls staff augmentation, which mostly means supplying skilled engineers to work alongside a client’s own teams. The new message casts the company instead as a partner that redesigns how a business runs, with AI agents as the raw material. Work of that kind tends to carry higher margins than renting out talent by the hour, which is a large part of why the change is drawing notice.
CI&T is headquartered in Brazil and serves large enterprises across the Americas and Europe. The company points to a history of roughly 30 years, more than 8,000 employees it now brands as AI Builders, and a client base of over 100 large organizations. Its work covers software engineering, data, marketing technology, and the newer agentic tools it is now promoting.
Unlike many companies chasing the AI theme, CI&T is already profitable. In the first quarter of 2026, it reported revenue of $136.6 million, up 23% from the same period a year earlier, and net income of about $7.6 million. Management also lifted its full-year revenue outlook to a range of $556 million to $575 million, pointing to a sales pipeline it tied to demand for AI deployment.
Those results sit against a harsher backdrop for shareholders. CI&T shares have fallen by more than 29% over the past year and recently traded near their lowest levels since the company went public in 2021. That gap, between a growing and profitable business on one hand and a sliding share price on the other, is the center of the investor story. If the move into agentic work does lift growth and margins, some see room for the stock to be valued more favorably than it is today.
Whether that hope holds up will come down to execution rather than announcements. Enterprise buyers have grown wary after a wave of AI trials that never reached full scale, and rivals that range from large consultancies to smaller specialists are making similar claims about agents that do real work. The value of CI&T’s new offering, if there is any, will show up in signed contracts and repeat business over the next several quarters. For now, the launch is a clear effort to change the conversation about what the company sells, and in time, about what it might be worth.
