Burning Budgets on Agents That Don't Deliver?

Burning Budgets on Agents That Don't Deliver?

📅 August 20, 2026
🕐 9:00 AM PT
👥 10 attending

About This Event

We've all watched AI agent produce an output: a report, a summary, a piece of code, a completed task. But is "the agent finished" the same thing as "the outcome happened"?

This meetup digs into the gap between agent outputs and business outcomes, the space where a task gets marked complete but nothing actually moves for the customer, the team, or the metric that mattered.

We'll discuss why this matters today, how its very imperative to talk about the "why" than the "what", and what a few companies are doing about it.

Bring your stories, your skepticism, and your opinions. This is a working conversation!

Who is this for?

  • Product folks working with AI agents who need a way to tell leadership "it's done" actually means something

  • Anyone who has shipped an agent workflow, watched it run "successfully," and still felt something was off

  • People who've been burned by a dashboard full of green checkmarks that didn't translate into real results

  • Founders and engineering leads building agentic products who are wrestling with how to define and measure success beyond task completion

Location

📍 San Francisco, CA

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