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Max Agency

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Welcome to Max Agency, a podcast about how the best AI agents are actually being built. Hosted by Harrison Chase, CEO of LangChain, each episode goes deep with the builders designing, deploying, and learning from real agent systems in the wild. From architecture decisions to evals, tooling, and failure modes, Max Agency is for people who want to understand what it really takes to build useful agen... more

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Ben Tannyhill is a product manager at LangChain, where he's building LangSmith Engine—an agent that finds and fixes your agent's failures. Engine continuously analyzes your production traces, clusters them into actionable issues, and opens pull reque... more

Zack Reneau-Wedeen is the Head of Product at Sierra, the conversational AI platform behind customer-facing agents for most of the Fortune 20. Before Sierra, he spent seven years at Google as the founding PM for Google Lens and Google Podcasts, then l... more

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Nick Larus-Stone is the Head of AI at Benchling, the R&D data platform that life science companies use to store and manage their experiments, samples, instruments, and analysis. Benchling has been around for since 2012. In October 2025, it launched B... more

Geng Sng is co-founder and CTO of Cogent, which builds autonomous agents that remediate vulnerabilities for enterprise security teams. Today, Cogent's agents process billions of security events per day, maintaining a live context graph of every asset... more

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Ben Tannyhill
Product Manager at LangChain
LangChain
Episode: The best AI agents are secretly teams | Ben Tannyhill, LangChain
Zack Reneau-Wedeen
Head of Product at Sierra
Sierra
Episode: The best AI agents are simpler than you think | Zack Reneau-Wedeen, Sierra
Nick Larus-Stone
Head of AI at Benchling
Benchling
Episode: The tool design tricks behind Benchling's AI agents | Nick Larus-Stone
Geng Sng
Co-founder & CTO of Cogent
Cogent
Episode: How Cogent builds AI agents that have to be right every single time | Geng Sng (Co-founder & CTO - Cogent)
Alexander Shevchenko
Head of Applied AI Research at Ramp
Ramp
Episode: How Ramp built an AI agent that can think outside of tokens | Alex Shevchenko
Florian Juengermann
Co-founder and CTO of Listen
Listen
Episode: How Listen is building a system of AI Agents & subagents for specialized tasks | Florian Juengermann, CTO
Izzy Miller
AI engineer at Hex
Hex
Episode: How Hex builds AI agents that reason like human data analysts | Izzy Miller, AI Engineer

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Harrison Chase
Host of the show, LangChain CEO, and central figure in leading conversations about building and deploying AI agents.

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4.9 out of 5 stars from 17 ratings
  • Timely and Insightful

    Great start to a podcast covering a timely topic!

    Update: 5 episodes in and still fantastic!

    Apple Podcasts
    5
    libertininick
    United Statesa month ago
  • Timely and Insightful

    Great start to a podcast covering a timely topic!

    Apple Podcasts
    5
    libertininick
    United States3 months ago

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Industry-savvy host with strong practical insights for engineering teams
Polished conversations with actionable takeaways for deploying agents
Great for learning real-world agent design and evaluation

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The best AI agents are secretly teams | Ben Tannyhill, LangChain
Q: What is the role of the screener subagent in Engine?
The screener subagent is the primary means by which Engine investigates traces, having access to full traces to determine what is interesting or problematic and to surface these to the main agent for decision making.
The best AI agents are secretly teams | Ben Tannyhill, LangChain
Q: How does Engine get kicked off and operate over traces?
Engine runs in the background on a configurable schedule, monitors incoming traces in LangSmith, clusters them, surfaces issues, and proposes fixes, with user-defined priorities guiding what it surfaces and how it acts.
The best AI agents are simpler than you think | Zack Reneau-Wedeen, Sierra
Q: How does Sierra handle latency and multi-provider models in voice-enabled conversations?
Latency is a constraint; Sierra uses heavy parallelism, multi-provider ensembles for transcription and speech-to-speech models, and keeps core conversations fast while allowing longer-running tasks to run in background via agent-to-agent calls or in-house components.
The best AI agents are simpler than you think | Zack Reneau-Wedeen, Sierra
Q: What makes memory a first-class primitive in Sierra's platform?
Memory is integrated via the Agent Data Platform, enabling identity-based memories across conversations and CRM integrations. It improves empathy, personalization, and outcomes while requiring careful authentication to protect sensitive data.
The best AI agents are simpler than you think | Zack Reneau-Wedeen, Sierra
Q: How does Sierra balance no-code and code approaches in agent development?
Sierra started with code but shifted most of the agent development to a no-code layer called Journeys, which compiles down to the Agent SDK code. This enables rapid iteration while preserving the option to fall back to code for complex needs, such as intricate tooling or CI/CD pipelines.

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What is Max Agency about and what kind of topics does it cover?

Max Agency dives into the realities of building AI agents that work in the real world. Episodes feature builders and leaders discussing architecture decisions, evaluation methodologies, tooling, and failure modes, with a focus on how agent systems are designed, deployed, and improved in practice. Listeners get behind-the-scenes insights into memory models, orchestration of multiple agents, safety considerations, and measurable outcomes from live deployments in enterprises and complex workflows. A standout thread across episodes is the emphasis on observable, testable behavior of agents, the trade-offs between automation and human oversight, and practical lessons from field experiences. The show likely appeals to engineers, product leaders, ... more

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