Building an open agentic Internet: Discoverable, callable, and payable
Matthew Conroy
Cloudflare
We set out to let any TELUS employee ship a working app as easily as they’d send a link: upload a zip, get a live subdomain, done. But when we tried to make that safe, cheap, and durable for a six-figure user base, we got a dozen things wrong. Join this session for a post-mortem exploration of the decisions we made and what we would do differently. Learn from our mistakes in architecture, security, and trusting an agent — or ourselves — more than we should have. With each mistake, we’ll share the symptoms we saw in production, the fixes that actually worked, and the cheaper signals we ignored beforehand. If you’re building developer infrastructure, an agent runtime, or anything multi-tenant where the tenants are your coworkers, you’ll leave with a checklist of failure modes that you can skip paying for yourself.
Matthew Conroy
Cloudflare
Jacky Koh
Relevance AI
Fabian Hedin
Lovable
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title: "12 mistakes we made building an agent platform for 100,000 employees"
url: "https://www.cloudflare.com/connect/2026/session/12-mistakes-we-made-building-an-agent-platform-for-100-000-employees"
year: 2026
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# 12 mistakes we made building an agent platform for 100,000 employees
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## Session details
- **Track:** Agent Cloud
- **Topics:** AI transformation, Agentic AI & MCP, App modernization
- **Solution areas:** Developer Platform, Core Platform, Application Performance
## About this session
We set out to let any TELUS employee ship a working app as easily as they’d send a link: upload a zip, get a live subdomain, done. But when we tried to make that safe, cheap, and durable for a six-figure user base, we got a dozen things wrong. Join this session for a post-mortem exploration of the decisions we made and what we would do differently. Learn from our mistakes in architecture, security, and trusting an agent — or ourselves — more than we should have. With each mistake, we’ll share the symptoms we saw in production, the fixes that actually worked, and the cheaper signals we ignored beforehand. If you’re building developer infrastructure, an agent runtime, or anything multi-tenant where the tenants are your coworkers, you’ll leave with a checklist of failure modes that you can skip paying for yourself.
## Speakers
- [Kevin Ng](https://www.cloudflare.com/connect/speakers/2405316) — Staff Developer Advocate, TELUS
- [Justin Watts](https://www.cloudflare.com/connect/speakers/2405317) — Distinguished Engineer, TELUS
- [Andrew Culberson](https://www.cloudflare.com/connect/speakers/2512656) — Software Engineer, TELUS
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