In early 2026, a regional investment advisory firm with roughly 1,200 employees and $4.2 billion in assets under management discovered something that no CISO wants to find on a Tuesday morning: a cascading prompt injection attack had quietly traversed three interconnected AI agents, bypassed existing API gateway controls,
There is a quiet assumption baked into almost every enterprise backend conversation about multi-agent AI systems in 2026, and it is costing teams months of rework, millions in compute waste, and entire product roadmaps built on sand. The assumption is this: the orchestration layer is neutral infrastructure. A pipe. A
There is a moment in every platform cycle when the technology stops being the primary risk and the vendor becomes the primary risk. Enterprise backend teams rebuilding multi-agent pipelines in the second half of 2026 are living inside that exact moment right now. On one side of the ring: Google
If you've spent any time in the enterprise AI backend trenches lately, you already know the feeling: your multi-agent system works beautifully in your staging environment, then you wire it up to a third-party MCP server and suddenly your orchestration layer is throwing capability mismatches, silent fallbacks, and
There is a pattern playing out in enterprise engineering orgs right now that nobody wants to be the one to explain in a board meeting. A team ships a multi-agent workflow. It works beautifully in staging. It goes to production. Three weeks later, a finance VP sends a Slack message