Quarterback + Trigger: The Two-Agent Coordination Pattern

The Coordination Problem

Every enterprise AI deployment hits the same wall: individual agents work beautifully in isolation, but the moment you need them to coordinate, everything falls apart.

40x — faster enterprise AI deployment cycles
Source: Reality AI benchmarks

How the Two-Agent Pattern Works

One agent (Quarterback) handles strategy. Multiple agents (Triggers) handle execution.

The Quarterback Layer

Quarterback receives a business objective, decomposes it into a task graph, assigns tasks to appropriate Trigger agents, monitors execution, and dynamically adjusts the plan.

The Trigger Layer

Each Trigger agent is a specialist. One extracts data from PDFs. Another runs financial models. A third generates compliance reports.

Key Takeaway: The power of the two-agent pattern is in the clean separation between strategy and execution.

Implementation Guide

• Week 1: Define objectives, build Quarterback orchestration logic

• Week 2: Add Trigger agents, implement feedback loops

• Week 3: Production deployment, monitoring, optimization