This blog dives into the practical challenges (“battle scars”) encountered while moving agentic AI analytics from demo to production. Covering real-world engineering and product lessons, it highlights pitfalls like ambiguous language, mismatched definitions, performance tail‑latency, lack of observability, and unreliable multi‑step logic. For each scar, it provides strategies—governed semantics, demander/validator separation, deterministic planning, explicit feedback loops, and transparency—that help build robust, trustworthy analytics agents at enterprise scale. If you’re rolling out AI analytics agents, these lessons can help you avoid common traps and ship with confidence.