Three of our agents worked the same account in the same week. None of them knew about the others.
Summary
Multiple teams independently built AI agents that each maintained isolated memory over the same accounts, causing conflicting actions at renewal time. The fix was moving account history to a shared live store—DevRev's Computer synced with HubSpot, Gmail, and Slack—accessed by all agents via MCP.
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