Sherlock: Building an AI Agent That Becomes an Expert on Any Domain (In Person)

Inaugural Event of the Chicago AI Engineering Group

I'm excited to welcome you to the first Meetup for the Chicago AI Engineering Group!

In-Person Event

Please note, this event is in-person only. It starts at 5:00 for networking, and the presentation will kick off around 5:30. The meetup will be held at the nvisia Conference Center, 200 S. Wacker Dr., Suite 3500, Chicago, IL 60606. It is at the corner of Wacker and Adams. You will need to check-in at the front desk, letting them know that you are attending the Chicago AI Engineering Group meetup on the 35th floor as a guest of nvisia.

Featured Talk
Ruben Rotteveel is our inaugural speaker, presenting the topic: Sherlock - Building an AI Agent That Becomes an Expert in Any Domain.

What does it actually take to build an AI agent that can work unsupervised, handed a task and trusting it to come back with something useful? This talk cuts through the hype with an honest, battle-tested account of building Sherlock, a multi-agent system designed to reason over complex domains, extract knowledge from diverse sources, and autonomously develop the tools it needs to do so.

The presentation will cover his experience with building a production-grade AI system, including the lessons learned and challenges that shaped its architecture: how memory works (and breaks) at scale, when to trust a model's judgment vs. enforce hard rules, why deterministic and probabilistic execution need to be treated as fundamentally different things, and how multi-agent coordination introduces new failure modes even as it solves old ones.

You'll leave with a clearer mental model of how production-grade agent systems are actually built, what keeps them from working, and what hard-won lessons look like in practice.