Gartner tracked a 1,445% increase in multi-agent system inquiries between Q1 2024 and Q2 2025. Teams are moving past single-agent experiments into coordinated architectures where specialized agents work together. The pattern resembles what happened with microservices: breaking monoliths into smaller, focused components that need coordination.
Over the next six months, orchestration complexity looks likely to become the primary bottleneck. Among organizations surveyed, 57% already run multi-step workflows, with 81% planning expansion. But coordinating multiple agents introduces new problems: routing decisions, context management, resource allocation across agent fleets. The infrastructure question shifts from accessing models to managing the control plane that makes agents work together efficiently.