Orchestrator agent

An orchestrator agent is the lead AI that breaks a big task into smaller jobs, hands each to a specialist agent, and stitches the results back together. Think of it as a manager: it doesn't do every step itself, it delegates, tracks progress, and decides what happens next. The pattern is also called orchestrator-worker or lead-agent.

For a solo founder this is how you get an AI to handle work too large for one prompt. A single agent loses the thread on a sprawling task; an orchestrator keeps the goal in view while workers handle the detail in parallel, one drafts, one fact-checks, one formats. The cost is coordination: more agents means more tokens, more places to go wrong, and harder debugging when an answer is off. Start with one capable agent and only add an orchestrator when the task genuinely needs parallel specialists.