Agentic AI
Multi-Agent Systems: When One Agent Isn't Enough
Multi-agent orchestration is often reached for too early. Here is the actual signal that tells you a single loop has stopped being enough.
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Multi-agent orchestration is often reached for too early. Here is the actual signal that tells you a single loop has stopped being enough.
Turning a Q&A chatbot into an agent that takes actions is not a bigger prompt — it is a different system, with a different failure mode at every layer.
Guardrails are not a system prompt that says "do not make things up." They are a set of engineered checkpoints the agent cannot talk its way past.
Fine-tuning feels like the "serious" option and RAG feels like a shortcut. In production, the calculus is almost always the opposite.
The word "agent" gets used for everything from a chatbot with a system prompt to a fully autonomous pipeline. Here is the definition we actually build against.
Thirty minutes with the people who would actually do the work — no discovery deck, no account manager.