Editor’s Note: This excerpt is adapted from Agentforce: Harnessing the Agency of AI to Scale, Grow, and Lead Any Industry. When Salesforce unveiled Agentforce in October 2024, we started getting candid reports from the field. Customers and partners were excited and optimistic about AI and the agentic future, but there were challenges. One of the most common questions was: Can I really get this to work? Some reluctance was understandable. Even the iPhone was mistrusted at first.