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Gather around, it's storytime! One about how the most impactful ideas can start bold internal initiatives. That’s exactly what happened with our product manager Lyubomir & the Progress AI Observability platform. When the idea for this tool started forming, we didn’t hit the breaks. We leaned in his AI innovation workstream & by backing him, we build something our engineers desperately needed. Now, we're opening it up to everyone. Hear from him how it all began. 👇
I didn't get fired from Progress. Leadership actually put me in charge of our enterprise AI innovation workstream a few months back, and I've been heads-down ever since. Normally when a big company spins up an "innovation workstream," it means six months of alignment meetings and slide decks nobody reads. We skipped that part and just started building. You've probably seen that video going around of the ex-Atlassian engineer walking through the legacy infrastructure he used to work on. It stuck with me. There's so much real engineering happening inside enterprise walls that nobody outside ever gets to see. I'm not going anywhere, but I do want to open the doors a bit. While most of the AI world was busy wrapping OpenAI's API, our internal teams were trying to run actual multi-agent workflows in production. It went badly at first: •Security found PII sitting in prompts that had already left the building. •Finance found a $4K weekend bill from one orchestration loop that wouldn't stop calling itself. •Engineering found that debugging a non-deterministic reasoning chain at 2am is its own special kind of hell. Most AI observability tools are Python-first, built for startups shipping fast. Which is fine, until you're a regulated enterprise running .NET on Azure with Semantic Kernel, and suddenly you're a second-class citizen in every SDK you touch. So we built our own. Progress AI Observability. Native .NET, real tracing for agent behavior. The thing is, it's already live. It's been quietly running our internal AI traffic for months. We're taking it to Product Hunt on June 19, but it's open right now and I'd rather you break it this week than next. Over the next three weeks I'll share the architecture, the things that nearly took down our dev environment, and some of what we learned the hard way. Link in the comments. Clear your calendar for June 19.