Forter's 13 lessons from its agent sprint: skip custom RAG, lean on mature enterprise search
bibryam · x · 2026-09-11
Forter's engineering blog shares 13 lessons from its company-wide "Agent Sprint." The core move: skip custom RAG entirely — three enterprise-search tools exposed 17 data sources and millions of documents with no new indexing pipeline, with mature enterprise search as the precondition.
- Last summer a new AI engineering team ran a two-week program so everyone in R&D could build their own agent.
- At QCon London the author noticed nearly every talk focused on the hard parts of agents; Forter set out to prove you can democratize agent building without a multi-year roadmap.
- Full 12-minute retrospective from the QCon AI Boston talk included.
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