Now recruiting · Season 2

The Agents in Production podcast

A podcast for engineering leaders shipping agents that do real work — across internal operations and customer-facing workflows alike.

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15
Episodes · S1
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Hours Watched
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Impressions
Guests from
Okta
Anthropic
Pinterest
Snyk
Workato
CopilotKit
DevRev
MCP
PulseMCP
Obot
Ref.tools
Oleria
Graphlit
Levo AI
Okta
Anthropic
Pinterest
Snyk
Workato
CopilotKit
DevRev
MCP
PulseMCP
Obot
Ref.tools
Oleria
Graphlit
Levo AI

What this podcast is about

Every team shipping agents hits the same wall: the demo worked. Production didn't. Not because the model was wrong — but because production is a different country entirely.

That gap — between "it worked in the sandbox" and "it works for real customers" — is what this show is about.

What every agent builder faces
Getting agents past the demo into real, messy production environments
Managing auth, context, memory and more across systems agents don't own
Debugging failures that don't show up in eval
Building for trust: from end users who didn't ask for an AI
Where agents break in production
Auth & Permissions
Context & Memory
Silent Failures
Tool Call Loops
Multi-System Handoffs
Eval vs. Real-World
Latency & Cost
User Trust
and more

Season 2 is focused on one thing

You've shipped something. It broke in an interesting way. You learned something the documentation didn't tell you.

Core themes · tailored to your product and experience

The first one that made it past staging — what it took to get there, what you had to compromise, and the moment you knew it was actually working in the wild

"Walk me through the moment you knew the agent was actually doing the job in production."

When your agent had to cross system boundaries — auth, context windows, tool call limits — and the seams started showing in ways no benchmark caught

"What broke first when the agent hit real users — and what did you build to fix it?"

What building, deploying, and operating agents looks like now versus eighteen months ago — and what your team spends Monday morning doing differently

"What does a Monday morning look like for your team now versus before agents were in production?"

Everything you didn't know you'd need to solve — observability, trust, fallback logic, user expectations — that only showed up once real traffic hit

"What's the hardest problem you solved between 'the demo works' and 'this is in production'?"

The assumptions you'd throw out, the things you'd build differently, the non-negotiables you now ship with every agent — because experience earned them

"What's the one thing you wish someone had told you before you shipped your first agent to production?"

Previously on The Scalekit Podcast

Season 1 brought together the people shaping the infrastructure agents run on — from identity standards and OAuth to agentic UI protocols and enterprise workflows.

Aaron Parecki
EP 01 OAuth wasn't built for agents. Now what?
Paul Carleton
EP 02 CIMD vs DCR: The right way to register an agent
Atai Barkai
EP 03 Copilots are just the start. Agentic UI is next.
Adam Seligman
EP 04 Where AI agents fit in the enterprise workflow
What the conversation sparked
Ravi Madabhushi

Meet your host

Co-founder & CTO of Scalekit — building the agent-to-tool infrastructure that helps teams connect their agents to business apps through a centralized MCP gateway. Ravi has spent years solving the hardest parts of auth infrastructure at scale.

He hosts every episode of the Agents in Production podcast, bringing a founder and builder's lens to conversations about shipping agents into production.

Ravi Madabhushi
Co-Founder & CTO
Scalekit

How the recording works

Four simple steps — we handle everything except showing up.

Process · no prep needed

We'll review your submission and reach out to align on fit and topics.

Tailor the themes to your product and experience. No prep needed — just an email exchange.

30–45 min casual, free-flowing recording on Riverside. A quiet space is all you need.

Share a preview before it goes live. Clips published on YouTube, LinkedIn, and our blog.

Season 2 · Open

If your agents have a job description, this is your room.