Why Your Agent Died in the Pilot: Pinaki Saha - Anshar Labs/Anshar Ai

About this session

Why do 79% of enterprises adopt AI agents while only 11% actually run them in production? I built and shipped four agents that crossed that gap, in security surveillance, finance, live content moderation, and training video generation, and each one taught the same lesson: the model was never the hard part. In this talk, I'll break down what actually kills a demo before it reaches production (data that isn't ready, no one owning oversight, a workflow that never touches the real system) and the four practices the surviving 11% share, from owning the data pipeline to designing for the model being confidently wrong. Come if you want a concrete playbook for turning a demo that worked once into an agent that runs unattended, at scale, in the real world.