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Your data may still derail it. og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Your AI agent aced the demo. Your data may still derail it. **[The New Stack](https://daily.dev/sources/newstack)** · 3 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary A webinar promotion argues that AI agents which perform well in demos often fail in production because of fragmented, stale, or ungoverned business data rather than retrieval quality. It outlines problems like inconsistent customer records across systems, outdated context, and inability to explain agent decisions, and proposes building a persistent unified business context layer instead of having agents reconstruct context per task. 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