Building an Agent Harness for the Business, Not the Builder
Official Schedule Context
- Date/time: 2026-06-30 · 2:50pm-3:10pm
- Track/room: track TBD · Expo Stage 2 NW
- Speaker(s): Garrett Galow
- Session type/status: session · confirmed
Official Description
Most internal tooling dies in the gap between the people with problems and the people who can write
code. We built a harness that closes it. Studio lets non-technical employees describe a business
problem and get a working tool back, connected to real enterprise data, deployed and shareable
across the company, without filing a ticket or learning to code. The catch is that a harness built
for non-engineers has to absorb everything an engineer normally handles. Data source connections and
their permissions. Turning model output into real software instead of a chat box. Deployment and
sharing that doesn't open a security hole every time someone ships. This talk walks through what
actually goes into that harness and the engineering decisions that make it hold together when the
person driving it has never opened a terminal.
Related YouTube Video
Why Can't Anyone Answer Questions About the Business? — Garrett Galow, WorkOS (speaker-match related prior/adjacent AI Engineer video; captions: English auto-captions).
Transcript Status
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Notes
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Supporting Slides
- youtube iUWwcG C8OU slides — extracted from the related public AI Engineer video.
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