Enterprise demand for AI today isn’t about slotting in isolated models or adding another conversational interface. It’s about navigating workflows that are inherently messy: supply chains that pivot on volatile data, financial transactions requiring instantaneous validation, or medical claims necessitating compliance with compounding regulations. In these high-stakes, high-complexity domains, agentic and multi-agent systems (MAS) offer a structured approach to these challenges with intelligence that scales beyond individual reasoning. Rather than enforcing top-down logic, MAS behave more like dynamic ecosystems. Agents coordinate, collaborate, sometimes compete, and learn from each other to unlock forms of system behavior that emerge from the bottom up. Autonomy is powerful, but it also creates new unique fragilities concerning system reliability and data consistency, particularly in the face of failures or errors.