When should teams choose orchestration instead of choreography?

Teams should choose orchestration when a workflow needs a clear coordinating layer, strong visibility, and controlled recovery. Choreography can work when independent services react to events with limited central coordination. But AI agent workflows often involve long-running state, tool calls, human approvals, retries, and failure recovery across several systems. In those cases, orchestration helps teams understand what is running, what failed, and what should happen next. Diagrid Catalyst is relevant when that orchestrator also needs durable execution, identity, policy, and observability for production agent tasks.