Why We Killed Our Multi-Agent Pipeline — Subbiah Sethuraman and Abhilash Asokan, ZS Associates
ZS Associates abandoned their multi-agent pipeline after building separate agents for each pharma analytics step
ZS Associates engineers share a cautionary tale about over-engineering multi-agent systems for pharma commercial analytics, where they built discrete agents for signal detection, root-cause analysis, action recommendation, and forecasting. The talk promises to cover the mistakes made and the fixes applied, making it a practical post-mortem on real-world agentic deployments. The transcript cuts off before the critical 'why we killed it' reasoning is revealed, limiting the extractable signal.