The Hidden Cost of Multi-Agent Systems

Think Kubernetes but for your multi Agents systems.

Deploying all your agents in one container wastes 40% of your compute, creates 100% blast radius on every deploy, and forces you to scale everything together. Consonant runs each agent independentlyβ€”they scale separately, fail separately, and deploy separately.

🚫 BEFORE CONSONANT

Monolithic Container
System Failure
Ag A
Ag B
Ag C
Ag D
One Container β€’ Shared Resources
  • ❌One agent crashes β†’ All agents die (100% Outage)
  • ❌Resources wasted (provisioned for peak of ALL agents)
  • ❌Update one agent β†’ Redeploy everything

βœ… AFTER CONSONANT

Independent Agents
Ag A
2 CPU
Restarting
Ag BπŸ’€
0.2 CPU
Ag C
Scaled x5
Ag D
0.1 CPU
  • βœ…Failures isolated (One crashes, others stay up)
  • βœ…Resources right-sized (Save 40% on compute)
  • βœ…Independent deploys (Update Agent A in seconds)

THE 2 AM DISASTER

How One Agent Takes Down Your Business

02:00 AM

Fraud detection agent memory leak

02:15 AM

Consumes all RAM

The node is now under extreme pressure. Others are being starved.

02:16 AM

Kubernetes kills the pod

Your refund agent: DEAD
Your inventory agent: DEAD
Your order agent: DEAD
πŸ’₯ ENTIRE BUSINESS OFFLINE

The Cost of Chaos

Blast Radius100%
Downtime45 minutes(until you wake up)
Revenue Lost
$18,750
Customer TrustDamaged
CTO SleepRuined

"This happened to you last quarter."

You called it 'an incident'.
We call it 'predictable architectural failure'.

The Six Production Disasters

Monolithic agent systems inevitably hit these walls.

BLAST RADIUS DISASTER

One agent crashes β†’ All 5 agents restart.

πŸ“Š The Damage
  • 18 days downtime/year
  • 100% system outage
  • $2.75M revenue lost
Consonant Solution
  • 20% degradation
  • 7 days downtime/year
  • $2.75M saved

COST WASTE DISASTER

Over-provisioning 20 CPUs for 1 active agent.

πŸ“Š The Damage
  • 40% compute wasted
  • $20k/year overspend
  • Idle resources billing
Consonant Solution
  • Right-sized pods
  • Auto-scaling 0-100
  • Pay for usage only

DEPLOYMENT RISK DISASTER

Typos in one agent break the entire monolith.

πŸ“Š The Damage
  • Fear of Friday deploys
  • 208 hours frozen/yr
  • Rollbacks take hours
Consonant Solution
  • Isolated rollouts
  • Canary deployments
  • 2 min recovery

SCALING HELL DISASTER

Scaling your email agent? You must scale your heavy researcher too.

πŸ“Š The Damage
  • 9x resource bloat
  • Saturated DB connections
  • Capped throughput
Consonant Solution
  • Independent scaling
  • Efficient usage
  • Uncapped growth

DEPENDENCY & LOCK-IN HELL

Python version conflicts & locked into one framework forever.

πŸ“Š The Damage
  • Can't use best tools
  • Venv nightmares
  • Rewrite to switch tools
Consonant Solution
  • Any language/lib
  • Mix LangGraph/CrewAI
  • Container isolation

NOISY NEIGHBOR DISASTER

One greedy agent eats 100% CPU, starving the router.

πŸ“Š The Damage
  • Unpredictable latency
  • Random timeouts
  • Hard to debug
Consonant Solution
  • Strict CPU limits
  • Guaranteed QoS
  • Predictable perf

If you have 3+ agents in production, you've hit at least five of these.
Consonant solves all.

The Complete Architecture: How It Actually Works

Consonant sits between your intelligence and your infrastructure.

1. USER
"Database slow, fix it"
2. CONSONANT CORE (Self Hosted)
Intelligence
Routes to right agent
Policy Engine
Checks permissions
Observability
Traces everything
3. RELAYER
4. KAGENT (K8s agentic runtime) - Agent deployed as k8s CRDs on your infra
DB Agent
K8s Agent
Cost Agent
Sec Agent
Each runs in a separate container β€’ Independent scaling β€’ Fault isolated

Intelligence

LLM decides which agent to use based on the user request and agent capabilities description.

Policy Engine

OPA enforces governance (SOC2-ready). No action is taken without a policy check pass.

Observability

Complete audit trail. Every input, output, and tool call is traced and recorded.

LIVE DEMO SCENARIO

See It In Action:
Black Friday Database Crisis

A real-world incident that would take 30 minutes to fix manually.
Consonant solves it in 1 minute.

60s
Time to Resolution
$49K
Revenue Saved
1
Agents Affected
0:00
Incident Detected
Engineer submits: "Database slow, fix urgently"
0:01
Intelligence Routing
Routes to db-diagnostic-agent
0:10
Policy Check
Emergency protocol approved (SOC2 logged)
0:25
Remediation Complete
Database connections scaled 100 β†’ 250

The ROI: What You Actually Save

Consonant pays for itself in infrastructure savings alone.

Cost Savings
$2M/year
Resource Optimization

Stop over-provisioning for worst-case scenarios. Right-size every agent.Verified by docs β†’

Velocity
3x Faster
Feature Shipping

Deploy agents independently. Updates take 2 minutes, not hours.Higher throughput β†’

Compliance
SOC2 Ready
Out of the Box

Built-in policy engine and complete audit trails for every agent action.Audit ready β†’

40%
Cost Reduction
Before:$2,920/mo (monolithic)
After:$1,250/mo (right-sized)
$20k/yr saved
75%
Less Risk
Before:208 hrs/yr fragile
After:35 hrs/yr risk
Ship 3x faster
90%
Scaling Efficiency
Before:Scale ALL agents
After:Scale per agent
$150k/yr peak savings
99.9%
System Uptime
Before:18 days downtime
After:0 days downtime
$2.75M revenue protected

Who This Is For

Platform Engineering

  • Running 5+ AI agents in production
  • Tired of fragile monolithic deployments
  • Need governance and observability

"Stop firefighting, start scaling."

Regulated Industries

  • Need SOC2/HIPAA compliance
  • Require complete audit trails
  • Can't afford governance gaps

"Pass audits, not excuses."

AI-First Companies

  • Scaling from 10 to 100+ agents
  • Need independent agent lifecycle
  • Want runtime intelligence

"Build the AI revolution on solid infrastructure."

Compare Approaches

FeatureMonolithicDIY K8sConsonant
Blast Radius100% (All crash)Manual setup<20% (Isolated)
Deploy TimeHours30 min1 min
GovernanceNoneCustom buildBuilt-in (OPA)
ObservabilityLogs onlyCustomComplete Traces
Time to ProdMonthsMonthsA day

Get Started

Stop letting your agents crash together. Separate them today.

Try Locally

Run the full platform on your laptop in 5 minutes.

# Install
helm install consonant ./chart
# Deploy
kubectl apply -f my-agents/
# Run
consonant run --goal "test"
Quickstart Guide

Deploy to Production

Ready for real traffic? Use our production-grade features.

  • Multi-cluster support
  • Policy enforcement (OPA)
  • Complete observability
Architecture Docs

See the ROI

Why enterprises switch to independent agent runtimes.

  • 40% infrastructure savings
  • Compliance-ready (SOC2/HIPAA)
  • Zero vendor lock-in
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