Brex bets on ‘less orchestration’ as it builds an Agent Mesh for autonomous finance

Fintech Brex is betting that the future of enterprise AI isn’t better orchestration — it’s less of it.As generative AI agents move from copilots to autonomous systems, Brex CTO James Reggio says traditional agent orchestration frameworks are becoming a constraint rather than an enabler. Instead of relying on a central coordinator or rigid workflows, Brex has built what it calls an “Agent Mesh”: a network of narrow, role-specific agents that communicate in plain language and operate independently — but with full visibility.“Our goal is to use AI to make Brex effectively disappear,” Reggio told VentureBeat. “We’re aiming for total automation.”Brex learned that for its purposes, agents need to work in narrow, specific roles to be more modular, flexible, and auditable. Reggio said the architectural goal is to enable every manager in an enterprise “to have a single point of contact within Brex that’s handling the totality of their responsibilities, be it spend management, requesting travel,