Orchestrate a multi-agent system over a 500-page merger agreement to produce a redlined risk summary that never contradicts the source.
Five LLM agents over a hundred steps, and the bar is zero contradictions with a 500-page contract. The real test is the state and grounding layer, not the agent prompts.
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Five LLM agents over a hundred steps, and the bar is zero contradictions with a 500-page contract. The real test is the state and grounding layer, not the agent prompts.
Lead with where the obvious approach breaks, because that is the judgment they are screening for — most candidates jump straight to the happy path and lose the room.
Then walk the failure back through the pipeline in order, naming the one metric the customer's exec sponsor actually cares about before you propose the fix.