The problem this solves
One agent asked to do everything does everything mediocrely: the prompt balloons, quality drifts, and a failure anywhere poisons the whole run. Meanwhile the process you want to automate genuinely has stages, gathering, deciding, producing, checking, that different specialists would handle differently. Forcing them into one context window is the bottleneck.
How we work
We decompose the process into roles with explicit boundaries: what each agent owns, what it receives, what it must hand off, and what it is forbidden to touch. Small, well-scoped agents beat one giant one on quality and on debuggability, but only if the seams are engineered.
The orchestration layer is where these systems live or die, so that is where we spend the effort: scheduling and triggering, event-driven handoffs, shared state the agents read and write, retry and failure isolation so one crashed step does not cascade, and observability that shows you what every agent did and why. We build this in Python and Node on serverless infrastructure, with LLM APIs such as Anthropic Claude underneath, and we operate multi-agent routines in our own business, so the orchestration patterns come from running these systems, not from diagrams.
You get a system with named parts: agents you can improve individually, a pipeline you can observe, and costs you can attribute per stage.
Deliverables
- Process decomposition: agent roles, boundaries, handoff contracts
- Orchestration layer: triggers, scheduling, event-driven handoffs
- Shared state and context store between agents
- Failure isolation, retries, and per-stage cost tracking
- Observability: run logs and per-agent traces
- Operations runbook and architecture documentation