Custom AI Engineering

Custom AI workflows for your business, engineered, governed, and shipped.

Most AI initiatives stall in confusion - vague use cases, ungoverned data, black-box agents, no production playbook. Ours don't. We follow a four-phase framework adapted from Microsoft's Cloud Adoption Framework for AI Agents, refined for B2B operators who need it to ship, not just demo well.

4
phase framework
Weeks
not quarters
Owned
by your business
The pitfall

Why most business AI initiatives stall before they ship.

If you've watched an AI project lose momentum at the proof-of-concept stage, the failure modes are usually the same four. Our process is built to avoid each one.

01

Vague use case

Teams build something that demos well but doesn't move revenue. We start with a measurable business outcome, every time.

02

Ungoverned data

PHI, PII, and IP leak into third-party SaaS without anyone noticing. We design boundaries before a single token gets sent.

03

Black-box agents

When something goes wrong in production, no one can explain why. We instrument every agent for observability + audit trail from day one.

04

No production playbook

The proof-of-concept impresses leadership, then dies on the way to ops. Our framework treats production as the starting line, not the finish.

Our process · 4 phases

From idea to live AI agent, in four phases.

Adapted from Microsoft's Cloud Adoption Framework for AI Agents. Refined for operators who need governed, production-grade AI in weeks, not quarters.

01Plan

Plan for agents

Match the AI use case to a measurable business outcome. No vibes, no hype.

  • Business planUse case → KPI → ROI model
  • Technology planModel selection, hosting, vendor scope
  • Organizational readinessRoles, training, change management
  • Data architectureSources, retention, consent boundaries
02Govern & Secure

Govern & secure agents

Lock in privacy, compliance, and identity boundaries before a single agent goes live.

  • Responsible AIBias review, content safety, escalation rules
  • Governance & securityIdentity, audit logs, secret management
  • Prepare environmentVPC, networking, region + data residency
03Build

Build agents

Single agent or multi-agent orchestration, engineered, evaluated, and version-controlled.

  • Single or multi-agent?Architecture decision, scoped per workflow
  • Agent skeletonModel, instructions, tools, memory
  • Tool integrationRAG, APIs, structured actions, write-backs
  • Evaluation harnessGolden test sets, regression tracking
04Manage

Manage agents

Integrate into your stack and operate with humans-in-the-loop where stakes are high.

  • Integrate agentsCRM, EHR, helpdesk, comms - production-grade
  • Operate agentsMonitoring, alerting, drift detection
  • Continuous tuningQuarterly review of prompts, tools, evals
Anatomy of an agent

What's inside every agent we build.

An agent is more than a prompt. It's a generative model wrapped in instructions, tools, and memory, operating on real inputs and producing measurable outputs. Here's the architecture under the hood.

Input
  • 🔔
    System eventsWebhooks, schedules, triggers
  • 💬
    User messagesChat, voice, form submissions
  • ✨
    Agent messagesOther agents handing off context
Agent core
Generative AI model
Claude, GPT, Gemini, selected per use case
Instructions
System prompt, behavior, escalation rules
Tools
Bound APIs, structured actions, schema-validated
Output
  • ✨
    Agent messagesReplies in your tone of voice
  • 🛠️
    Tool resultsBooked appointments, ticket updates, write-backs
Tool calls, feeding the agentretrieval · actions · memory
🔍
Retrieval
RAG over your documents, knowledge base, and historical interactions. Scoped per query, cited per response.
⚡
Actions
Schema-validated API calls into your stack, CRM updates, calendar bookings, ticket creation, payment flows.
🧠
Memory
Session, user, and organizational memory, bounded by your retention + consent policy. Never silently leaked.
Why our process avoids the typical pitfalls

Process-oriented. Production-grade.

We don't sell AI prototypes that wow in a demo and die on the way to ops. We build infrastructure your business can run on, and audit when something goes wrong.

Process-first, hype-last

Every engagement starts with a business outcome and a measurable KPI, never with 'let's add AI to X.'

Owned by you

Code, prompts, evaluation harness, dashboards, all yours. Built on your cloud, your data. No vendor lock-in.

Auditable & governed

Every prompt, every tool call, every output is logged. Pass legal review the first time, not the third.

Production from day one

We design for monitoring, error handling, and cost ceilings before we write the first prompt, not after the demo.

How we engage

Discovery → Roadmap → Build → Operate.

Most clients move from a 60-min discovery call to a signed roadmap in two weeks. From there, we build, ship, and stay on to operate, co-located with your team.

Contact Us
  1. 01
    Discovery (Week 0)60-min call. We map use cases to revenue. You leave with a written assessment.
  2. 02
    Roadmap (Weeks 1–2)Architecture, data plan, governance, KPIs. Fixed-fee. You own the artifact.
  3. 03
    Build (Weeks 2–8)Phased delivery. Weekly demo. Production-grade from sprint one.
  4. 04
    Operate (ongoing)Monitoring, on-call, quarterly tuning. Optional retainer or in-house handoff.
Free 30-min consult

See exactly what your business is leaving on the table.

We'll show you how many leads you're losing today, and project the revenue we'd recover in the first 30 days. No pitch deck. Just numbers.