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Essays and field notes from 80x on agentic engineering in venture capital: what worked, what broke, and what it cost.

Teaching a CRM to qualify its own deals

A case study on Scout, a MEDIC qualification agent. Most of the work was not the AI; it was making it safe to run unattended against a couple thousand live deals.

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Topics this section will cover

  • Production failure modes in agents. The ways an agent can run green and still do nothing useful, and how to catch them.
  • Proof-gated autonomy. Letting a model write to a system of record only when it can cite the evidence verbatim.
  • Spec-first engineering. Writing the contract before the code, and what that discipline buys on agent projects.
  • CRM data rescue. Repairing pipelines after botched migrations, duplicate floods, and silently dead automations.