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Lessons from Building Deep Research Agents in Production
Deep research is complex. Data is scattered across systems, insights are buried in text and tables, and most LLM demos stop at shallow Q&A. In production environments, researchers need systems that can discover, connect, and reason across both internal and web-scale data, while maintaining reliability, transparency, and compliance.
This session shares the design and deployment journey of a production-grade multi-agent research assistant built to perform deep exploration and long-form reasoning. Drawing inspiration from emerging deep research systems such as OpenAI’s and Gemini’s, the talk explains how similar capabilities were engineered for enterprise settings where privacy and data governance are essential. Attendees will learn how context engineering (selective retrieval, summarization, context routing, isolation) and reasoning strategies (planning, deliberate thinking steps, specialized agents) work together to manage complex research workflows.
The session builds on the team’s recent research publication in Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence and expands on how these systems reduce discovery cycles from weeks to days.
What You Will Learn
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How to design and deploy multi-agent research systems for deep reasoning and synthesis
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Techniques for managing complex context flows and orchestrating reasoning steps
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Strategies for combining structured and unstructured data sources while maintaining compliance and traceability
Who Should Attend
AI engineers, research technologists, data scientists, and architects building intelligent systems for knowledge discovery, synthesis, and long-form reasoning.
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About the speaker
Sarang Kulkarni
Principal Consultant, ThoughtWorks
Sarang Kulkarni is a Principal Consultant at Thoughtworks with over 14 years of experience as a polyglot developer, spanning software development, data engineering, DevOps, and AI. He currently leads a healthcare client account, spearheading Generative AI initiatives that accelerate drug discovery processes by making decades of study data more accessible and actionable.
Recently, Sarang joined Thoughtworks' Global AI Service Development team, contributing to the organization's evolving AI strategy and connecting client delivery with broader strategic initiatives.
A continuous learner at heart, Sarang consistently explores emerging technologies and approaches. Beyond client work, he is an O'Reilly Media trainer specializing in productionizing RAG applications and has spoken at numerous conferences, where he is recognized for blending technical depth with practical, real-world guidance.








