Building the Context Layer — capability, context, event, control, and evidence layers stacked beneath an agent, on top of existing sources of truth

Building the Context Layer

Once an organization accepts that agents need governed, current context, the next question is unavoidable: what do we actually build? The answer is not an all-powerful agent platform that absorbs every system. It is a set of layers that make existing capabilities usable in a new way. The goal is to preserve domain ownership while giving agents a safe, observable path to information and action. Think of the context layer as connective tissue rather than a replacement for the systems that already hold the truth. ...

October 6, 2026 · 5 min · 887 words · Hugo Guerrero
Your Agents Don’t Need Better Models. They Need Better Plumbing — a model sitting atop APIs, events, identity, and records, with stale data dripping through

Your Agents Don’t Need Better Models. They Need Better Plumbing.

There is a familiar pattern in enterprise AI projects. The team starts with a model. When the prototype disappoints, they change the prompt. Then they add retrieval. Then they try a larger model, a longer context window, or a new framework. Eventually someone asks the question that should have come first: why does the agent still fail when it leaves the demo? Often, the model is not the answer. The plumbing is. ...

September 22, 2026 · 5 min · 918 words · Hugo Guerrero