The final 72 hours of building Corporate were a blur of integration testing, agent prompt tuning, and discovering edge cases that only emerge when multiple agents interact in production-like conditions.
Departments that worked perfectly in isolation started failing when chained together. Verification steps that seemed redundant turned out to catch real errors. The research agent would produce great output, but the writing agent needed a completely different context format to use it effectively.
This post covers the concrete fixes: how I restructured inter-agent communication, added retry logic with escalation, and simplified the orchestration layer. Corporate went from a promising prototype to something I'd actually use for my own research workflow.