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AI agent development, built for the day the model is wrong

We’re an AI agent development company that ships agents with evaluation suites, guardrails and human review on the decisions that matter. Because the model will be wrong, and the system has to catch it before your customer does.

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Who this is for

  • CTOs and VPs of Engineering at 20–200 person software companies who need an AI capability shipped without derailing the roadmap
  • Product leaders losing deals on feature comparison against competitors who already shipped one
  • Operations leaders with a decision process a well-guarded agent could handle

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The problem with most AI agents

They work in the demo.

The demo uses clean inputs, a cooperative user and a happy path. Production has none of those. It has the malformed record, the user who asks something nobody anticipated, the API that changes without notice, and the month-end edge case that exists twelve times a year.

An agent without evaluations has no idea it’s failing. An agent without guardrails fails expensively. An agent without human review on high-stakes decisions is a liability with a chat interface.

That’s not an argument against building agents. It’s an argument for building them properly.

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What we deliver

Scoped agent or copilot
Retrieval, tool use and orchestration built against your actual data and stack.
Evaluation suite
A real test harness with graded cases, run on every change, so quality is measured rather than felt.
Guardrails
Input validation, output constraints, refusal behavior, and cost and token ceilings.
Human-in-the-loop review
On the decisions where being wrong is expensive.
Observability
Logging, tracing and alerting on failure modes, not just uptime.
Documented handover
Architecture, prompts, eval cases, runbook. Yours, and readable.

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How we build them

AI writes a great deal of the code. A senior engineer decides what’s correct.

We start by defining what “wrong” means for your use case, because you cannot guard against a failure you haven’t named. Then we build the eval suite before the agent, so there’s a scoreboard from day one. The agent is built against it, and we ship when the numbers clear the bar you set — not when the demo looks good.

Agent architecture with retrieval, tool use, guardrails, evaluation and human reviewRequest to retrieval to tool use to the guardrail layer, then out through the human review checkpoint; an evaluation harness scores retrieval and tool behaviour below.Fig. S-03 — agent architectureRequestRetrievalTool useGuardEval harnesseval cases · scoreshuman review[ guardrails are in scope, not an upgrade ]
  1. The request enters retrieval over the approved sources.
  2. Tool use executes bounded actions.
  3. The guardrail layer admits or reframes the output.
  4. The evaluation harness scores behaviour against eval cases.
  5. A human review checkpoint gates anything bound for production.
Reference architecture — the shape an agent build ships in. No client system depicted. Accent — the human review gate · data tone — evaluation.

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What we won’t do

  • Ship an agent with no evaluation harness, at any budget
  • Build fully autonomous agents for decisions with real financial, legal or safety consequences
  • Take on an agent build where nobody can define what a wrong answer looks like
  • Pretend a chatbot is an agent

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Proof

Concept buildProjected

An evaluation harness you can inspect

A concept build that makes the eval-first method inspectable: six static checks on an n8n export, a quality bar declared before results exist, regression diffs between versions, capped and labelled AI analysis — and a human gate on what enters the graded suite.

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What it costs

Proof of concept from $35,000

Full pricing, what's included and what isn't — see pricing

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After it ships

Agents drift. Models get deprecated, your data changes, and prompts that worked in March stop working in September. Automation-as-a-Service from $500/month covers monitoring, eval re-runs and iteration.

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Process and timeline

  1. 01Diagnose30 minutes
  2. 02ScopeAnd eval design — 1 week
  3. 03BuildAgainst the harness — 3–5 weeks
  4. 04IntegrateInstrument and hand over — 1–2 weeks

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FAQ

How is this different from wiring up an API?
The API call is the easy part and takes an afternoon. Everything that makes it dependable — evals, guardrails, retrieval quality, failure handling, observability — is the build.
Which models do you use?
Whichever fits the task, cost and data-residency constraints. We build model-agnostic where practical, because the right answer changes every few months.
Can you work with our data privacy requirements?
Usually. Self-hosted and region-locked deployments are normal for us.
What if the agent doesn’t hit the quality bar?
You set the bar with us before we build. If it doesn’t clear it, we don’t ship it and we tell you why.

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Thirty minutes with the engineer who'd own the build. No pitch, no deck. Bring the problem; we'll tell you whether it's worth solving and roughly what it costs.

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