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# Trust, but Verify: Building a Document Agent That Survives Production


- **Date:** Wednesday, Jul 8, 2026
- **Time:** 13:30–15:30 (120 min)
- **Room:** Room M3 (18 Seats)
- **Event:** World Congress 2026 Europe

## Description

Let's ship an agent into production. You'll start with the easy part: a document comes in, an agent reads it, pulls the fields, hands off the result — the kind of thing you could wire together yourself from an agent framework and a workflow engine. We'll build that starting point live, then do the part the demos always skip: keeping it alive in production.

Real documents don't match your template, and the agent that worked at design time answers differently each time. Over two hours you'll grow a simple document flow into a governed agentic workflow: adding an agent with inspectable traces, writing evals that validate its output and trajectory, and catching a regression before it ships. Then you'll publish it to run on durable, recoverable orchestration. You'll leave with a running agent and a reusable eval set you can point at your own work.

What you'll walk away with
- A document-processing agent you built and watched run
- Output and trajectory evals you can reuse on your own projects
- A feel for what "production-grade" actually takes: durable execution, governance, recovery

## Speakers

### [Alex Iordan](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/@alex-iordan)

Principal Product Manager at UiPath
### [Cliff Simpkins](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/@cliff-simpkins)

Lead Developer Relations at UiPath


## Related talks at this congress

- [Trust, but Verify: Building a Document Agent That Survives Production](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/events/world-congress-2026-europe/sessions/1447-trust-but-verify) — Cliff Simpkins
- [Fast Agents Produce Bad Results Faster](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/events/world-congress-2026-europe/sessions/1020-fast-agents-produce) — Mardu Swanepoel
- [Build a Production-Ready AI Agent in 90 Minutes](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/events/world-congress-2026-europe/sessions/957-build-a-production) — Tamas Piros
- [Build a Production-Ready AI Agent in 90 Minutes](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/events/world-congress-2026-europe/sessions/1664-build-a-production) — Tamas Piros