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title: "One agent for everything is like one employee for everything"
description: "An assistant who knows everything and is allowed to do everything loses track. Why specialised agents with their own defined context give sharper results."
language: en
source: https://coachsteff.live/en/een-agent-per-domein
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# One agent for everything is like one employee for everything

Imagine a small business with one employee who does everything. The accounting, the marketing, the customer service, the planning and the product development. It might work for a while. But you both know how that ends: everything mixed up, nothing quite right, and an overflowing head.

Yet that is exactly how many people set up their AI. One assistant, one conversation, all knowledge and all tasks thrown together.

## My own setup

I work with multiple agents alongside each other myself. One for administration: emails, planning, invoices. One for marketing and content. One for building apps and tools. Each has its own instructions, its own sources and its own tasks.

That is not a luxury or a technical hobby. It is the reason why the output stays sharp. The administration agent does not need to know anything about my book projects. The content agent does not need access to my accounting. Each only sees what it needs.