How Pigment Built an AI-Powered Business Planning Platform with LangGraph

Pigment's Business and Technology - Pigment is an enterprise planning and performance management platform that helps companies build strategic plans and adapt to changing market conditions [1] - Pigment AI consists of conversational AI and autonomous agents that accelerates insight generation and scenario creation across the organization [2] - Pigment's autonomous agents framework allows users to schedule and automate reports and scenario creation, saving hundreds of hours of manual work [3] Challenges with Previous AI Architecture - Linear chain pipelines limited flexibility and made experimentation with agent-based workflows complex and cumbersome [4] - Managing graphs, memory, state transitions, and interruptions for custom agents was too complex [5] - Strong control over tools and agents, simple state management, and asynchronous processing were critical needs for financial use cases [5] Benefits of Long Graph - Long Graph offers graph-based orchestration, long-term memory, streaming, and interrupt capabilities [6] - Graph orchestration is easy to set up, allowing easy definition and tweaking of agent iteration and collaboration [6] - Full visibility and control over message flow between agents enables building reliable and testable logic [7] - Agent topologies can be abstracted into configuration files, enabling rapid prototyping and deployment of new workflows [7] Impact of Long Graph - Reduced time to insight from hours to seconds using natural language search and agent analysis [8] - Faster decision-making by surfacing anomalies and key performance gaps in real time [8] - Users can focus on higher value work by automating routine analysis and planning tasks [9] - Engineering team has more time to experiment and innovate, focusing on higher impact features [9] - Significantly less time is spent implementing key site capabilities like persistent, long-term memory [9]