Agent builders need to catch failures caused by messy inputs and real tool behavior before releasing an agent that performed well in demos.
Potential solution
Build a regression test tool that replays anonymized failed support conversations against a sandboxed agent and compares tool calls and outcomes across releases.
Long-running research agents can spend days pursuing a hypothesis. Researchers need a way to see which leads were tested and where the evidence trail ends.
Potential solution
Build a research dashboard that records sources, rejected hypotheses and daily progress, with a budget limit and a checkpoint before another long run.
Teams running multi-step AI agents need to see which model calls drive up the cost of completing a workflow.
Potential solution
Build a trace-based cost analyzer that measures cost per successful run and replays expensive steps against cheaper models to check for quality regressions.