AI agents are brilliant interns, but most companies can't deploy them at scale.

Trace just raised $3M seed (YC, Zeno Ventures, Goodwater Capital) to solve enterprise AI agent adoption through workflow orchestration.

Key approach:
• Maps corporate environments into knowledge graphs
• Breaks tasks into workflows with proper context
• Automates agent onboarding (biggest deployment blocker)

Founder playbook:
• Identified context gap in AI deployment
• Built knowledge graph vs prompt engineering approach
• Positioned as "manager" layer above AI "interns"
• Raised from enterprise-focused VCs

Takeaway: Context engineering > prompt engineering for AI infrastructure plays.

Source: TechCrunch

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