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AI & Data

AI Agent Development

Tool-using AI agents wired to your systems with guardrails, evaluation, and operator controls.

AI Agent Development builds assistants that take actions—not only chat. We design tool access, permission boundaries, memory/context strategy, and evaluation loops so agents stay useful inside your operational constraints instead of improvising unsafely across production systems.

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Who it’s for

  • Product teams embedding agents into workflows
  • Ops teams automating multi-step research and actions
  • Companies replacing brittle scripts with guided agents

Problems we address

  • Chatbots cannot act on internal systems safely
  • Prompt-only demos fall apart on real edge cases
  • Nobody can evaluate whether the agent improved

Expected outcomes

  • Agent architecture with explicit tools and permissions
  • Human approval gates for high-impact actions
  • Evaluation set and iteration loop for quality

Capabilities

Concrete engineering capabilities included in a typical engagement for this service.

Agent planning and tool-calling design

Integration with internal APIs and knowledge sources

Guardrails, allowlists, and audit logging

Human-in-the-loop approval paths

Evaluation datasets and regression checks

Operator consoles for inspecting runs

Technology

Representative technologies used for this service. Final stack depends on your estate.

  • OpenAI / Anthropic / open models
  • LangChain / custom orchestration
  • Vector stores
  • Your internal APIs
  • Postgres
  • Observability tooling

Architecture

AI application flow

User requests through the application into model APIs, tools, and storage.

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Deliverables

  • Agent design document and threat boundaries
  • Implemented agent with tool integrations
  • Evaluation notes and known limitation list
  • Operator runbook and escalation path
  • Handover for prompt/tool iteration

Out of scope

  • Unattended production changes without approval gates
  • Claims of fully autonomous business operation

Timeline

Typical timeline

3–8 weeks

Timeline depends on scope, access, and dependencies—not a delivery guarantee.

Process

A clear delivery path from discovery through handover and optional support.

  1. 01

    Discovery

    Goals, constraints, success criteria, and current-state review.

  2. 02

    Architecture

    Target design, interfaces, risks, and delivery sequence.

  3. 03

    Implementation

    Incremental build with visible progress and documented decisions.

  4. 04

    Testing

    Functional checks, failure paths, and acceptance criteria validation.

  5. 05

    Deployment

    Controlled release to staging and production with rollback paths.

  6. 06

    Handover

    Runbooks, access notes, and operator/admin walkthrough.

  7. 07

    Support

    Optional hypercare window or retainer continuity after go-live.

Custom engagement

Pricing depends on architecture, traffic profile, and integration depth. Share your requirements for a scoped quote.

FAQ

No. We design for bounded autonomy, logging, and human oversight on sensitive actions. Quality is improved through evaluation, not promised as perfect accuracy.

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Tell us about your environment, constraints, and target outcomes. We’ll recommend a package or a scoped quote.