The Two Context Gaps Keeping Your Agents Half-Blind
Agents don't have a speed problem. They have a direction problem.
We spent 2025 giving agents more tools, better orchestration, and faster inference. And they're still making confident mistakes at scale.
The industry keeps asking: how do we make agents more capable for enterprise deployments?
Wrong question.
Capability without relevant context leads to faster mistakes.
There are two context gaps that no amount of tooling will solve.
The first is external context. What's happening in the market. Who the players are. What they're building, saying, signaling. The competitive landscape your agent is supposedly navigating.
You can perfectly ground an agent in your enterprise systems and it still won't know the first thing about the company across the table.
Enterprise RAG, memory systems, internal knowledge bases—they make agents smart about you. They don't make agents smart about anyone else.
The second is internal context. Not your data. Your direction. What you're trying to achieve. What trade-offs you're willing to make. What risks you'll tolerate and which ones you won't. Your strategic identity.
Most agent architectures assume this context exists somewhere upstream—in memory or via human prompting. That it's someone else's problem.
It's not someone else's problem. It's the problem.
Orchestration doesn't solve this.
Orchestration routes. It sequences. It coordinates. It does not comprehend.
When you tell an orchestration layer to "research this company, draft an outreach email, and schedule a follow-up," you're assuming someone, somewhere, already knows why this company matters, what makes them tick, and how to approach them.
That assumption is doing a lot of heavy lifting.
Every workflow is a flight plan. Without context infrastructure, your agent is one degree off at departure. The longer the workflow, the further from the destination.
This is why we're building Layer 0.
Not another tool. Not another orchestration framework. The foundational context layer that loads before agents access tools, before orchestration kicks in, before work begins.
Two systems, designed to work together:
Context Shells solve the external gap. Machine-readable strategic intelligence on any company—what they do, how they compete, where they're headed, what signals matter. One URL arms your agents with complete competitive understanding. Not a research report for humans to read. Structured context for agents to reason with.
Strategic DNA solves the internal gap. Your organization's decision-making fingerprint—priorities, constraints, risk tolerance, competitive positioning. The "why" behind every "what" your agents will do on your behalf. Built around now-next-long horizons so agents understand both point and slope.
Both delivered in formats agents can actually consume. Both loaded at Layer 0, before the first tool gets called.
Without context infrastructure, your agents don't fail. That's the problem.
They proceed. Confidently. In the wrong direction. At scale.
External context tells agents what's happening in the market. Internal context tells them what matters to you. Load both or hard choices get made by systems that don't understand what's at stake.
Agents don't need more tools. They need to know why they're using them.
We're building that layer. And we're just getting started.
See what Layer 0 context looks like: getstrata.ai