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Four domains I have actually shipped in

Agent reliability is mostly domain-independent — until it isn't. What changes by industry is which failure is unacceptable, what a security reviewer will ask, and which regulation now applies. These four are the domains I have actually shipped in, so each page carries the specific constraint rather than generic advice with the industry noun swapped in.

2,000

concurrent users on multi-tenant HR analytics

Regulated domain

HR technology

AI agents on HR data, where the data is the whole problem

The most sensitive non-medical data a company holds, in a multi-tenant product, read by managers about their own reports.

Conversational analytics over workforce dataAttrition and time-to-fill forecastingPolicy and handbook assistantsManager copilots for reviews and one-to-ones

The constraint, and what I would do

B2B + B2C

recruitment platform with AI matching in production

Regulated domain

Recruitment & ATS

Candidate-facing AI has to be defensible, not just accurate

If the same candidate scores differently on a re-run, you cannot defend the decision — and from August 2026 you may have to.

Candidate–job matching and ranking enginesResume parsing and enrichment pipelinesAutomated screening and shortlistingSourcing and outreach agents

The constraint, and what I would do

520M

parameters processed every 15 minutes

Telecom & data platforms

Keep the language model out of your hot path

At 520 million records every 15 minutes, per-record inference is off by six orders of magnitude. There are still good places for an agent — just not there.

Anomaly explanation over network performance metricsPipeline and connector configuration generationAlert triage, deduplication and enrichmentRunbook automation with human gates

The constraint, and what I would do

Enterprise CLM

contract lifecycle platform in production

Legal & contracts

In contract AI, an unsupported sentence is a liability

Grounding to a specific clause version is not a feature. It is the product.

Clause extraction and classificationContract review and risk flaggingObligation and renewal-date extractionTemplate and clause-library assistants

The constraint, and what I would do

Why only four?

Because these are the domains where I have shipped production systems, and an industry page for a domain I had not worked in would be exactly the generic filler that makes these pages worthless. The reliability work itself transfers to any domain — if you are somewhere else, the solution pages are the better starting point.

Different domain, same problems?

Unvalidated tool arguments, unbounded loops, missing evals and cost with no ceiling look the same everywhere. Tell me what you are building and I will tell you which of these constraints applies to you.