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It's time to move past PoCs and unsatisfactory Pilots It's imperative to build for Production for the right Outcomes

The question now isn't š˜„š—µš—²š˜š—µš—²š—æ to build agents, but š—µš—¼š˜„ to build them at scale without breaking your infrastructure, governance, or sanity.

After a year of reality checks in enterprise AI, here's what we've learnt:

šŸ”“ š—™š—æš—®š—“š—¶š—¹š—² š—œš—»š˜š—²š—“š—æš—®š˜š—¶š—¼š—»š˜€: Agents break on brittle legacy APIs šŸ”“ š——š—®š˜š—® š—¦š˜„š—®š—ŗš—½š˜€: RAG fails when unstructured data lacks context šŸ”“ š—„š—¶š˜€š—ø š—£š—®š—æš—®š—¹š˜†š˜€š—¶š˜€: Governance blocks adoption without clear guardrails

But there's a blueprint for getting it right.

š—§š—µš—² šŸ± š—„š˜‚š—¹š—²š˜€ š—¼š—³ š—˜š—»š˜š—²š—æš—½š—æš—¶š˜€š—² š—”š—“š—²š—»š˜š˜€:

šŸ­. š—”š—»š—°š—µš—¼š—æ š—¼š—» š—Æš˜‚š˜€š—¶š—»š—²š˜€š˜€ š˜ƒš—®š—¹š˜‚š—², š—»š—¼š˜ š˜š—²š—°š—µ š—µš˜†š—½š—²: If you can't measure time saved or revenue generated, kill the project.

šŸ®. š—¢š—æš—°š—µš—²š˜€š˜š—æš—®š˜š—² š—¼š—»š—¹š˜† š˜„š—µš—²š—» š—»š—²š—°š—²š˜€š˜€š—®š—æš˜†: Start with a deterministic single loop. Multi-agent systems are exponentially harder to debug.

šŸÆ. š—œš—»š˜ƒš—²š˜€š˜ š—¶š—» 'š—”š—“š—²š—»š˜-š—„š—²š—®š—±š˜†' š—±š—®š˜š—® š—½š—¶š—½š—²š—¹š—¶š—»š—²š˜€: The biggest cost isn't the LLM. It's pre-processing, chunking, vectorising, and cleaning unstructured documents so agents don't hallucinate.

šŸ°. š—¦š—²š—°š˜‚š—æš—² š˜š—µš—² š—¶š—±š—²š—»š˜š—¶š˜š˜†, š—»š—¼š˜ š—·š˜‚š˜€š˜ š˜š—µš—² š—½š—æš—¼š—ŗš—½š˜: Never let agents bypass IAM. Log every tool execution. Mandate human-in-the-loop for high-stakes actions.

šŸ±. š—•š˜‚š—¶š—¹š—± š—³š—¼š—æ š—³š—®š—¶š—¹š˜‚š—æš—²/š—³š—®š—¹š—¹š—Æš—®š—°š—ø: Define who takes over when the model fails. Your agent design card should answer this š—Æš—²š—³š—¼š—æš—² you write a single line of code.

š—§š—µš—² š—æš—²š—®š—¹š—¶š˜š˜†?

The future isn't agents everywhere. It's the right tool, in the right place, working with the right people.

Success isn't about having the most sophisticated AI. It's about understanding your workflows, choosing the right tool for each task, measuring real business outcomes, and building with your people (not despite them).

At Synaptyx AI, we don't start with AI. We start with your business and your people.

Our Lattice accelerators aren't finished products you're meant to squeeze into; they're starting points you can shape to fit your reality.

š—•š˜‚š—¶š—¹š—± š—³š—®š˜€š˜, š—Æš˜‚š˜ š—Æš˜‚š—¶š—¹š—± š—æš—¶š—“š—µš˜.