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Paper
The hybrid pipeline pattern: deterministic agents vs. LLM calls.
1 API call per run instead of 30. How deterministic agents and a single LLM supervisor reach production scale.

Apr 30, 2026 · 5 min readRead
Article
Governance built in: how D8:SCOUT enforces policy without slowing the pipeline.
Security at the agent level behaves differently than security bolted on at the perimeter.

Apr 30, 2026 · 6 min readRead
Paper
Data lineage at scale: full traceability without a data catalog rebuild.
D8:CAT maintains origin-to-output lineage on every record, as a byproduct of normal pipeline operation.

Apr 30, 2026 · 7 min readRead
Article
Human-in-the-loop by design: where agents stop and people decide.
Agentic AI doesn’t mean unattended AI. Here’s how we wire checkpoints into every pipeline from day one.

Apr 30, 2026 · 4 min readRead
Paper
From 5% sampling to 100% coverage: loan audit automation at Kitsap Credit Union.
A production deployment case study. 100% portfolio coverage. Every loan. Every night. No migration.

Apr 30, 2026 · 8 min readRead
Video
Pipeline walkthrough: how a funded loan moves through 6 agents in under 3 seconds.
Watch a single loan move through all 6 agents: real timestamps, real data, real exception handling.

Apr 30, 2026 · 8 min watchWatch

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