Most AI strategies are just expensive experiments. Agents that don't interoperate aren't agents — they're islands.
Be honest: you've got one agent in marketing, another in service, maybe a third one your sales team is piloting. None of them talk. None of them scale. That's not transformation. That's duplication at speed.
Salesforce (via Agentforce), Google, and 50+ other vendors are now backing A2A — the interoperability protocol for AI agents. This is the work that turns isolated agents into a workforce.
Why this is the inflection point
If your agents can't discover, trust, and work with each other across vendors, you're building legacy 2.0. The wave that came after SOAP/REST taught everyone what happens when integration is an afterthought. A2A is the chance to not repeat that mistake.
What's in the protocol
- The 10 building blocks of interoperable agents
- The concept of an Agent Card — and why it changes how agents discover each other
- Real-world Agentforce examples in sales, CX, marketing, and finance
- How open standards dissolve the API mess we've all inherited
The strategic move
If you're a CTO, CIO, or RevOps leader and your agent roadmap doesn't reference A2A, your roadmap is already behind. Build with interop assumed, not bolted on.
Read the deep-dive from Sam Sharaf, Gary Lerhaupt, and Daryl Martis.