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The Stack You Need Before You Buy More Agents
A podcast episode on the operational foundation teams should clean up before layering in more AI agents.
Blake Bandeff
Client Systems Strategist
Episode takeaway
Teams often add another agent because the first one feels underwhelming. In practice, the real bottleneck is usually the surrounding stack: missing naming conventions, broken ownership, and no shared process for approvals.
Three things to fix first
- Clean your source systems.
- Decide what can be auto-executed.
- Make escalation paths visible.
Once those are clear, every new agent becomes easier to justify and easier to measure.