Bayer says its Agentic Decision Engine connects users to crop science workflow data, resolves about 80% of initial questions without engineer assistance.
Bayer Crop Science has introduced the Agentic Decision Engine (ADE), a natural-language interface over its existing Connected Decision Engine (CDE) analytics platform. In a post published October 23, 2026, AWS describes how the system helps Bayer staff investigate workflow status, model behavior, results, and failures across systems that previously required separate searches.
The CDE runs hundreds of machine-learning model configurations across crops, regions, and teams, with execution history and operational controls. ADE adds a supervisor agent that classifies a user’s request and directs it to a specialist agent, which retrieves relevant information. Bayer says ADE has 22 specialist agents in production. Examples include agents for retrieving live workflow results, diagnosing operational problems, answering conceptual questions using retrieval-augmented generation, and producing charts or locating dashboards.
The platform runs on Amazon Bedrock AgentCore with Bayer’s LangGraph orchestration. Its supporting services include DynamoDB for workflow checkpoints, Aurora PostgreSQL for session records and analytics, ElastiCache for response caching, and OpenSearch Serverless for indexed domain content. AgentCore Gateway exposes backend APIs as tools while handling authentication and authorization outside the agent code. Bayer also uses Microsoft Entra ID for user identity and scoped AWS permissions for service-to-service access.
AWS reports that a troubleshooting diagnosis that previously took more than an hour of manual log investigation and engineer support can now take under 10 minutes. During ADE’s first phase, about 80% of user questions were resolved without an engineer in the loop. More than 100 Bayer Crop Science users had used the system since its gated launch, according to the post.
The production work included load testing, security reviews, stronger monitoring, immutable container images, and vulnerability scanning. Bayer says routing APIs through AgentCore Gateway rather than building a dedicated server for each API reduced per-API integration overhead by more than 99%. The system adds a conversational access layer; CDE remains the governed platform for running analytics.