Custom AI agents

Give your agent a clear purpose and a sound architecture.

Design Claude- and OpenAI-based agents around your knowledge, tools, and business rules. Start with architecture and evaluation, then add focused implementation support where needed.

Agent engineering

Built around a specific need.

A useful agent needs appropriate context, permitted tools, and a way to recognize when it should stop. We help your team specify those boundaries and evaluate behavior. A prototype or integration can then test a particular design decision before you expand the scope.

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SYSTEM BLUEPRINTILLUSTRATIVE ARCHITECTURE
↳
01 / CONTEXTInternal knowledge
YOUR SYSTEM BOUNDARY⌘
✳CUSTOM AGENT + ORCHESTRATIONRetrieve & reason
ModelsToolsContext
✓CONTROL POINTSource validation
↗BUSINESS OUTCOMEGrounded answer

Source permissions · Sensitive-data controls

↺ Evaluation Observability Continuous improvement

An agent retrieves permitted knowledge, prepares a response, and escalates gaps for review.

WHAT THIS SERVICE COVERS

01

Context that belongs to your business

Connect internal knowledge and business systems with access-aware retrieval and clear data boundaries.

02

Tools with explicit permissions

Define which actions an agent can take, when it must ask for approval, and how it handles exceptions.

03

Evaluation before expansion

Test task completion, failure cases, and model behavior against the workflow before extending its scope.

ENGAGEMENT OUTPUTS

Something concrete
to build on.

↗Agent and tool specifications

↗Context and integration architecture

↗Evaluation scenarios and approval boundaries

The scope and deliverables are agreed for your engagement.

A PRACTICAL START

Give the agent a job it can be evaluated against.

A bounded agent for one operational workflow, with clear inputs, outputs, and ownership.

01

Bound the task

Define successful outcomes, prohibited actions, supported inputs, and escalation paths with the workflow owner.

02

Connect context and tools

Design retrieval, tool contracts, authentication, and authorization. Separate information access from permission to act.

03

Evaluate and operate

Build test cases for normal and adversarial inputs. Track task completion, incorrect actions, latency, and cost before expanding access.

ILLUSTRATIVE ENGAGEMENT / NOT A CUSTOMER CASE STUDY

What this can look like in practice.

An internal assistant can answer questions in a demo, but must now work with restricted documents and business tools. The next step is to define whose permissions apply, which actions need approval, and what the agent should do when evidence is missing.

BEFORE WE START

What to bring.

  • Representative tasks and examples of unacceptable behavior
  • Knowledge sources and their access model
  • Candidate tools, business rules, and approval owners

HOW WE ASSESS PROGRESS

What useful progress looks like.

  • Task success can be checked against representative cases
  • Actions stay within agreed permissions
  • Missing evidence and tool failures have explicit fallback paths

BEFORE WE BEGIN

Your questions,
answered.

Can an agent use our private knowledge?

Yes, subject to the access and deployment model agreed for the project. Retrieval must respect source permissions, and the agent should retain references to the evidence it uses.

What happens when a model is uncertain?

We define fallback behavior for missing evidence, tool failures, and ambiguous requests. Depending on the workflow, the agent asks for clarification, stops, or routes the task to a person.

ARCHITECTURE / ADVISORY / ENGINEERING

Let’s work through your next AI decision.