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Whether you\u2019re navigating your first demo or already running a GenAI solution in production, this talk is for you.\r\n\r\nHere I\u2019ll share hard-earned lessons from building production-grade **multi-agent chatbots** (e.g. \u201ctalk-with-your-documents\u201d) in a corporate environment \u2014 lessons grounded in hands-on experience, packed with **practical tips** and references to GenAI **tools and frameworks** that actually work.\r\n\r\nWe\u2019ll cover:\r\n- why involving business stakeholders **early and often** is not just a nice-to-have, but a critical success factor \u2014 and *how to do it*.\r\n- how to build robust **evaluation pipelines** using real user data and expert input to assess relevance, accuracy, and overall system performance *over time*.\r\n- how to strike the *right balance* between elegant simplicity and complex **agents architectures**, with a focus on composable **patterns** and **advanced strategies for RAG** (chunking, pre-retrieval, post-retrieval, and more).\r\n- the main challenges of *unstructured data* \u2014 and how **smart preprocessing** can be helpful in compensating for poor document quality.\r\n- **post-deployment** strategies: onboarding users, increasing trust through **transparency** (think interactive source tracing and agent flow visualization), and iterating based on **real-world queries and feedback**.\r\n\r\nThis is a new, original talk for AI Heroes, aimed at developers, AI engineers, and product teams building GenAI solutions. 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