John Greenstein, CEO, discusses why orchestration matters more than AI models.
The debate about which frontier model is better, faster, smarter... is somewhat pointless. At this point, the frontier model (or models) becomes only a single component in a much larger operational fabric.
The future enterprise winners will be the companies with the best collaborative orchestration layer that enables multiple humans—working with AI Agents—to make the best decisions. The orchestration layer becomes the true control plane.
Today, most organizations still think about AI as a tool that answers questions. In practice, enterprise AI is evolving into something much larger: networks of autonomous and semi-autonomous agents coordinating actions across systems, workflows, and people.
Enterprise AI is evolving into something much larger: networks of autonomous and semi-autonomous agents coordinating actions across systems, workflows, and people.
Imagine a mission-planning workflow that supports strategic decision making, such as the military’s OODA (Observe–Orient–Decide–Act) loop. The flow might iterate through the following steps:
AI agents generate heuristics and plans
Humans review recommendations
Individual humans—each of whom have unique privileges, systems access, and security clearances—then task unique agentic personas to run simulations in parallel and collaboratively across multiple LLMs
Actions are then taken by independent resources, the results of which are then fed back to AI agents to re-evaluate
This value shift away from pursuing optimal personal super intelligence and toward enabling large-scale coordination of personas will require that enterprises re-write requirements for new infrastructure investments. Why? Because traditional workflow software packages assume static flows that can be mapped out with If-Then-Else logic, and those workflows can be securely executed by users with pre-determined security roles.
But agentic workflows are not predetermined, and the security around their execution is contextual.
If you are evaluating a new Human-AI collaborative orchestration solution for your organization, consider reviewing the list below.
Zero Trust Architecture
Dynamic runtime permission enforcement for Human and Agentic actors
Roles-based Access Control (RBAC)
Attribute-based Access Control (ABAC)
Policy engines validating every action to ensure Policy-based Access Control (PBAC)
Separation of execution from identity
Isolated execution environments
Multi-modal content (that includes everything including structured data, unstructured data, images, videos, live feeds, etc.)
Node-centric graph builders
Content-centric nodes (for additional context)
Any other requirements to add to the list? Curious to hear your thoughts. Find me on LinkedIn to start a conversation!