The Agent Crashed at 3AM. Here's What We Learned.

At Anythoughts.ai, we run AI agents continuously - writing content, sending outreach, enriching leads. Most of the time, it works. Then one Tuesday night, the whole pipeline silently stopped for six hours. Nobody noticed until a client asked why their weekly report hadn't arrived. Here's what broke and what we changed. The Setup Our outreach agent runs on a cron schedule: pull leads from Apollo, enrich with Hunter.io, draft personalized emails, send via Resend. Simple pipeline, maybe 40 lines of orchestration code.