Missions: Multi-Agent Systems That Ship for Days — Luke Alvoeiro, Factory

Description

Everyone's building multi-agent systems, but nobody agrees on how. This talk proposes a taxonomy of five frontier multi-agent strategies and shows what happens when you compose them into a single architecture. Drawing from production data at Factory, we walk through a three-role system (orchestrator, workers, validators) that uses validation contracts, structured agent handoffs, and adversarial verification. We cover the case for serial over parallel execution, why model selection per role is a compounding advantage, and how to design systems that get better with each model generation instead of being made obsolete by them. Speaker info: - https://github.com/lukealvoeiro - https://www.linkedin.com/in/lukealvoeiro