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Focused blog card: Everybody Tests

Everybody Tests

You already test. You open the browser, click around, verify the button works. That's a test—it's just trapped in your head. Now watch what happens when you build an AI agent: you tweak a prompt, squint at the output, decide if it's "good enough." That's an eval. The question isn't whether you do it. The question is whether you'll keep doing it by hand.
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Focused blog card: Design, Just Rebrand... Please

Design, Just Rebrand… Please

For the last 10 years, designers have been screaming "it's not about how things look, it's about how things work." The design community got the message. Nobody else did. And with agents, it doesn't matter, because there's no interface to design anymore. The forcing function is gone. What's left is ambiguity, partial information, and systems that need to infer intent from "Book me a flight to Detroit next Tuesday, afternoon, aisle seat." That's still a design problem. We just need a new word for it.
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Focused Expands to EMEA to Support the Next Phase of Agent Adoption

Focused has opened a London office to support enterprises moving AI agents from experimentation into real, production-grade systems. As organizations shift from demos to deployment, Focused is expanding into EMEA to help teams integrate, operate, and observe agentic systems inside the software they already rely on.
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Context Will Replace Your Design

For fifty years, we designed interfaces to help humans talk to computers. Now AI agents can talk to computers for us. So what happens to design?
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Illustrated digital bridge connecting prototype to production AI agent with circuit board patterns

LangChain: Bridging the Gap to Production-Grade AI Agents

Most AI projects never make it past the demo phase. The gap between a flashy prototype and a production system that handles real enterprise workloads is vast—and that's exactly what LangChain was built to bridge. As one of LangChain's only boutique partners, we've spent years helping Fortune 500 companies and mid-market teams build agents that actually work in production. This isn't about another framework tutorial—it's a practical guide to deploying reliable, observable, and controllable AI agents using LangChain, LangGraph, and LangSmith. If you're stuck with POCs that won't scale or demos that can't handle the complexity of your real systems, this is your roadmap from prototype to production.
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Isometric illustration of an AI agent cube connecting to CRM, API, ERP, database, and legacy mainframe systems

2026 Will Be the Year of the Integrated Agent

The question is no longer "can we build agents?" but "how do we integrate agents into everything we already have?" After years of proof-of-concepts and experiments, 2026 marks the year agentic AI moves from the lab to the enterprise—connecting autonomous agents to CRMs, ERPs, APIs, and decades of legacy systems. The companies that win won't have the most sophisticated models; they'll be the ones that solve the hard organizational problems of integration, governance, security, and testing for non-deterministic systems. The agent won't be the product. The integration will be.
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The 7 Best LangChain Agencies in 2026 (Ranked)

Official partnerships. Production deployments. Knowledge transfer. These are what separate great LangChain agencies from the rest. We evaluated seven top consultancies so you don't have to start from scratch.
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Focused blog card: LangGraph Patterns That Scale In Production

LangGraph Patterns That Scale In Production: Tool Calling for Context Engineering

Static prompts don’t scale. This post breaks down a LangGraph pattern using tool calling for context engineering so agents pull only the context they need, when they need it.
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Focused blog card: Driving Value with LangSmith Insights

Driving Value with LangSmith Insights

A practical walkthrough of using LangSmith Insights to understand real user behavior in production AI agents.
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Focused blog card: Stop Including JSON in Your Prompts

Stop Including JSON in Your Prompts

See how LangChain v1 handles structured outputs without requiring JSON in prompts, using schema-first, provider-native support for more reliable and typed responses.
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Focused blog card: Building What's Next with LangChain 1.0, LangGraph 1.0, and LangSmith

Building What's Next with LangChain 1.0, LangGraph 1.0, and LangSmith

LangChain just launched 1.0 along with LangGraph and major LangSmith updates, and Focused was on site for it all. Learn how these releases redefine enterprise agentic AI and why Focused, an early LangChain partner, continues to lead in building production-grade, reliable agent systems.
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Focused blog card: LangChain Under the Hood — 5 Features We Rely On Daily

LangChain Under the Hood: 5 Features We Rely On Daily

Discover 5 powerful LangChain features we rely on daily at Focused to build production-ready AI apps and how LangGraph ties them all together.
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Focused blog card: 3 Things I Learned While Building My First Multi-Agent Architecture

3 Things I Learned While Building My First Multi-Agent Architecture

What does it actually take to build a working multi-agent architecture? Agustín shares lessons from his first implementation, covering agent structure, evals, and why your use case should shape the design
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Focused blog card: Debugging LLM Pipelines with LangSmith

Debugging LLM Pipelines with LangSmith: Why Prompting Alone Isn't Enough

Learn how Focused uses LangSmith to debug, test, and scale LLM pipelines. Go beyond prompt engineering and design systems built for production.
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Focused blog card: Why Are You Locking Yourselves Into LangChain?

"Why Are You Locking Yourselves Into LangChain?"

Learn why Focused chose LangChain as our framework for building agentic systems. We break down the developer-first principles and architectural benefits that make it the right choice for production-ready AI applications.
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Focused blog card: Customizing Memory in LangGraph Agents

Customizing Memory in LangGraph Agents for Better Conversations

Learn how to customize memory in LangGraph agents to create more natural, context-aware conversational AI experiences that remember past interactions.
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Chat With Your PDFs PART 1: An End-to-End LangChain Tutorial

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