Most Teams Do Not Need Multi-Agent Systems Yet

There is a pattern I keep seeing in AI system design. A team starts with a clear business problem. Maybe they want to generate reports from internal documents. Maybe they want to answer user questions over a knowledge base. Maybe they want to automate part of a workflow that currently takes people hours of manual effort. At the beginning, the problem is usually practical and grounded. The team needs better search, better summarisation, better drafting, better classification, or better decision s