Custom AI Agent

A custom AI agent for internal operations and bespoke workflows — scoped, hardened, and owned by you, not rented from a platform.

Price
From $25K
Timeline
4–10 weeks
Terms
Fixed scope
The engagement

We build one agent that runs a real workflow in production — on your data, your channels, your guardrails.

Retrieval over your docs and systems, tool and MCP integrations, an escalation and human-in-the-loop path, an eval harness, guardrails, and observability — the opposite of renting a black-box SaaS agent.

We scope the one workflow that pays for itself first, build it to survive real users, and hand you full IP. You own it, and you can extend it.

Week by week
Week 101

Scope the workflow

We pick the one workflow that pays for itself first — the tickets, calls, or ops task with the clearest ROI — and define what 'good' means.

Weeks 2–402

Build the agent

Retrieval over your docs and systems, tool and MCP wiring, and the escalation path — the agent behaving on your real data.

Weeks 5–703

Harden it

An eval harness, guardrails, and a human-in-the-loop path — so it survives edge cases, not just the demo.

Weeks 8–1004

Ship + hand over

Deploy to your channels, wire observability, and transfer full IP. You own it.

Scope

What the engagement covers

The workflow01
  • Use-case + ROI scoping
  • Success criteria
  • What to automate first

One workflow that pays for itself — not a vague 'AI assistant' that does everything badly.

Retrieval over your data02
  • Docs, tickets, systems
  • Cited, permissioned answers
  • Hybrid retrieval

The agent answers from your knowledge, with citations — not a generic model guessing.

Channels03
  • Chat, voice, Slack, CRM
  • Your existing surfaces
  • No rip-and-replace

It meets customers where they already are, on the channels you run today.

Tools + MCP04
  • Actions on your systems
  • Named tools with auth
  • MCP integrations

It doesn't just talk — it books, refunds, updates, and escalates through real tools.

Escalation + HITL05
  • Confidence thresholds
  • Hand-off to a human
  • Review + override

When it's unsure, it hands off cleanly — with context — instead of hallucinating.

Evals + guardrails06
  • A golden dataset
  • Safety + tone guardrails
  • Regression checks

It's measured against real cases and guarded against the failure modes that embarrass you.

What you keep

What you receive

Tangible artifacts you keep, whether or not you continue past this engagement.

Deliverables · 10 included
  1. 01Agent architecture
  2. 02Retrieval over your docs + data
  3. 03Channel integrations
  4. 04Tool + MCP wiring
  5. 05Escalation + human-in-the-loop path
  6. 06Eval harness
  7. 07Guardrails
  8. 08Observability
  9. 09Deployment + runbook
  10. 10Full IP transfer

A working agent, delivered running on your data — not a Figma prototype.

The conversation, the tools it calls, the evals it passes, and the numbers it moves. A sample is shown; yours runs your workflow, on your channels, owned by you.

A real workflow run

Retrieval, scoped tool calls, and a clean escalation — the agent doing the job.

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RequestStep 01

Triage the overnight queue — anything urgent?

The run record keeps the request beside the response.

Illustrative workflow. Select a stage to inspect it; this is not a client run.

The eval harness

Scored against real cases before it ever meets a customer.

evals/agent.jsonEvaluation template
Eval suiteEvidence before a verdict
Not run
Resolution accuracy

A representative input, expected outcome and execution trace are required before this dimension receives a result.

No grade or performance claim is shown before the buyer's evaluation.

Tools + MCP

The named actions the agent can take — each scoped, typed, and audited.

agent/tools.tsTool boundary
Selected actionscan_queue
Read
Permission
read
Approval
Set during workflow qualification
Receipt
Request, response and authority recorded

Select a tool to inspect its permission and approval boundary.

What we measure

Agree the baseline, source and acceptance criteria before release.

Measurement contractNo sample outcomes
Selected measureQueue triage
Baseline
Measured with the buyer
Source
Named system of record
Acceptance
Agreed before release

Targets and observed results belong to the qualified workflow, not a sample dashboard.

Illustrative product scenes · never client results

Plus: Full IP transfer · a deployment runbook · 30 days of async Q&A after launch.

Fit

Built for

Ops lead

Replacing brittle automation

A directed agent that handles the messy, judgment-heavy path your rules engine can't.

Founder / SaaS

Adding an agent to a real product surface

A reliable agent you own and can extend — not a black box rented per seat.

Team lead

Buried in triage, routing, and back-office work

The repetitive judgment calls handled automatically, with humans kept in the loop where it matters.

FAQ

Questions, answered

Common questions

Start here

Start with one useful decision.

Bring the workflow and the person responsible. We scope the exact number with you, and sign a mutual NDA before any code or data is shared.

From $25K · 4–10 weeks