---
type: concept
title: "Agentic Experiences"
description: "Building apps where the agent drives a live, generative UI and front-end/back-end state stay in sync, instead of a static chat box."
tags: [agents, generative-ui, frontend, state-sync, agui]
videos: [build-a-rag-ai-agent-with-real-time-source-validation-copilotkit-pydantic-ai, the-future-of-ai-and-saas-is-agentic-experiences-heres-how-to-build-them, build-a-chatgpt-style-app-for-your-n8n-ai-agents-in-minutes]
created: 2026-07-21
updated: 2026-07-21
---

# Agentic Experiences

An agentic experience is an application where the AI agent is embedded deep enough to read and manipulate the whole interface, not just answer inside a chat box. As Cole frames it, "CopilotKit is what enables agentic experiences as I like to call it... They also call it generative UI. It allows our AI agent to manipulate the state in the entire user interface." The defining trait is a live loop between the model and the screen: "we have this real time sync between the agent in the backend and our front end. It knows the three sources that we have selected."

The layout pattern is a familiar chat panel that is wired into the rest of the app rather than isolated from it. "So we have our typical chat application on the right hand side, but then it's deeply integrated into the rest of the components of our front end. That's what I mean by agentic experiences." The bet behind this is a product thesis: the winners will not be standalone chatbots but existing products that absorb an agent. "the products that are going to be left over are generally not going to be the ones competing as agents, but instead the ones that deeply integrate AI agents into a product that delivers its own unique value." Cole is blunt about the scope of the shift: "we're just really deeply embedding the agent in our application. And I really do think that this is the future of SAS and really all web development."

What makes this practical now is a standard connective layer. AG-UI plays the same role for applications that MCP plays for tools: "AG-UI standardizes how front-end applications connect to AI agents. It's like MCP, but instead of connecting agents to tools, we are connecting agents to our applications in a standard way." Even without a bespoke build, a polished chat surface over an existing agent is the entry point: "Wouldn't it be nice if instead of having something that look like this, we could have a UI for our agents that looks like this?... We have a full ChatGPT- like interface to talk to our n8n agents," complete with formatted markdown and durable conversation history.

## Builds on

- [Generative UI](./generative-ui.md) - the agent deciding and driving what renders on screen is the mechanism an agentic experience is built on.
- [Contract-First Development](./contract-first.md) - a shared typed state contract between front end and back end is what keeps them in sync.

## Related

- [The AI Layer](./the-ai-layer.md) - agentic experiences are how the AI layer surfaces inside a product.
- [Human in the Loop](./human-in-the-loop.md) - the synced UI is also where the user reviews and steers the agent.
- [Model Context Protocol (MCP)](./mcp.md) - the tool-side analog that AG-UI is explicitly modeled after.
- [Claude Code Hooks](./claude-code-hooks.md) - another pattern for wiring an agent into an existing workflow's state.

## Tools

- [CopilotKit](../entities/tools/copilotkit.md) - the framework Cole uses to embed the agent and sync UI state.
- [AG-UI](../entities/tools/ag-ui.md) - the protocol standardizing how front ends connect to agents.
- [Pydantic AI](../entities/tools/pydantic-ai.md) - builds the backend agent behind the experience.
- [n8n](../entities/tools/n8n.md) - the agent backend behind the ChatGPT-style interface build.

## Sources

- [The Future of AI and SaaS is Agentic Experiences (Here's How to Build Them)](../sources/the-future-of-ai-and-saas-is-agentic-experiences-heres-how-to-build-them.md) - "[0:05:01] So we have our typical chat application on the right hand side, but then it's deeply integrated into the rest of the components of our front end. That's what I mean by agentic experiences."
- [The Future of AI and SaaS is Agentic Experiences (Here's How to Build Them)](../sources/the-future-of-ai-and-saas-is-agentic-experiences-heres-how-to-build-them.md) - "[0:01:31] AG-UI standardizes how front-end applications connect to AI agents. It's like MCP, but instead of connecting agents to tools, we are connecting agents to our applications in a standard way."
- [Build a RAG AI Agent with REAL-TIME Source Validation (CopilotKit + Pydantic AI)](../sources/build-a-rag-ai-agent-with-real-time-source-validation-copilotkit-pydantic-ai.md) - "[0:02:39] CopilotKit is what enables agentic experiences as I like to call it... It allows our AI agent to manipulate the state in the entire user interface."
- [Build a RAG AI Agent with REAL-TIME Source Validation (CopilotKit + Pydantic AI)](../sources/build-a-rag-ai-agent-with-real-time-source-validation-copilotkit-pydantic-ai.md) - "[0:01:21] we have this real time sync between the agent in the backend and our front end. It knows the three sources that we have selected."
- [Build a ChatGPT Style App for Your n8n AI Agents in MINUTES](../sources/build-a-chatgpt-style-app-for-your-n8n-ai-agents-in-minutes.md) - "[0:01:06] Wouldn't it be nice if instead of having something that look like this, we could have a UI for our agents that looks like this?... We have a full ChatGPT- like interface to talk to our n8n agents."
