Building AI Agents That Don't Fail: Lessons From Orkes

Turning a promising AI demo into a reliable, production-ready application requires more than powerful models. At AGNTCon + MCPCon in San Jose, Jeu George, Co-Founder and CEO of Orkes, joins The New Stack’s Nick Lucchesi to discuss the challenges of building mission-critical agentic applications and the infrastructure needed to support them.

George explains how Orkes Conductor helps developers orchestrate AI agents, manage failures, enforce security guardrails, and maintain audit trails for accountability and compliance. He also introduces ParticleDB, an agentic database designed to simplify enterprise data access while keeping sensitive information within company cloud environments.

Using examples from financial services and e-commerce, George explores when businesses should rely on AI agents, deterministic workflows, or human oversight. He emphasizes the importance of designing systems that anticipate failures, recover automatically, and provide visibility into every agent action.

Looking ahead, George predicts cheaper AI models, faster processing, and greater adoption of privately deployed agents will accelerate enterprise AI innovation.

Learn more from The New Stack around the latest developments around building mission-critical agentic applications and the infrastructure needed to support them in the AI era:

Why Agentic AI Orchestration Is Key To Managing AI Complexity

A practical systems engineering guide: Architecting AI-ready infrastructure for the agentic era

The rise of agentic AI on Kubernetes: unleashing the new infrastructure layer

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