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Agentic AI
Maestro: Building a Production Agent Orchestration Harness for Novo Lishon
A field report from a production deployment. Over the last quarter we built and shipped Maestro — an agent orchestration harness running against a live language-learning platform with tens of thousands of users. It supervises seven specialist agent fleets, runs continuously, and is the only piece of infrastructure on the system that we let touch production data autonomously.
This is the engineering story. What we built, why we built it the way we did, and the eight rules that emerged from doing it. If you’re scoping an agentic system for your enterprise, treat this as a checklist. If you’re already in flight and something feels off — the patterns below are usually where to look first.
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