2026-04-22 · 4 min read

The Coordination Problem Is the Real Bottleneck

Shipping faster requires a control plane for planning, execution, and review.

Teams rarely fail because they cannot write enough code. They fail because requirements drift, context gets lost, and execution is detached from the artifacts that define intent.

A useful agent stack needs more than a chat box. It needs a place to define work, generate plans, run execution loops, and judge output against the original objective.

That is the job of the control plane: to keep humans, agents, and artifacts aligned while the system keeps moving.