AI agent development with you in control

Custom AI agents that use your tools to do the work, and stop for a person before anything that can't be undone.

AI agents we build

The nine kinds we build most often, and any other agent your work needs.

  1. 01 / 09

    Customer support agents

    Routine tickets resolved end to end — the order looked up, the policy applied, the reply sent — and the rest handed to your team with what the agent found.

    • Order, refund and delivery questions answered
    • Tickets triaged and routed by topic and urgency
    • Replies sent from your help desk
    • Handover to your team with the case summed up
  2. 02 / 09

    Sales and lead agents

    Every inbound lead qualified against your criteria, the company researched, the first email drafted and the meeting booked.

    • Inbound leads scored against your criteria
    • Company and contact researched before the first reply
    • First emails drafted for your review
    • Meetings booked and logged in your CRM
  3. 03 / 09

    Back-office operations agents

    Orders, scheduling and data entry across your systems, done step by step and logged.

    • Orders entered and updated across your systems
    • Stock, courier and customer updated in turn
    • Scheduling and data entry from email and forms
    • Every step logged, and retried if a system fails
  4. 04 / 09

    Finance agents

    Invoices matched to orders, accounts reconciled and expenses checked, with anything over your limit sent for approval.

    • Invoices matched to purchase orders
    • Accounts and payments reconciled
    • Expenses checked against your policy
    • Anything over your limit sent for approval
  5. 05 / 09

    Document and intake agents

    Contracts, claims and forms read, checked and turned into records, with the fields they pulled shown for review.

    • Contracts, claims and forms read, typed or scanned
    • Fields extracted and checked against your rules
    • Records created in your systems
    • Uncertain fields shown to a person for review
  6. 06 / 09

    IT and HR helpdesk agents

    Password resets, access requests and policy questions handled, with access granted only after a person approves it.

    • Password resets and account unlocks
    • Access requests granted after a person approves
    • Policy and benefits questions answered
    • Tickets raised in your service desk
  7. 07 / 09

    Knowledge and research agents

    Answers from your own documents and data with the sources shown, and research across them written up as a brief.

    • Answers from your documents, tickets and wiki
    • Sources shown with every answer
    • Research across sources written up as a brief
    • Only what each person is allowed to see
  8. 08 / 09

    Multi-agent systems

    A coordinator that splits a job between specialist agents — research, drafting, review — and checks their work before it is done.

    • A coordinator that plans and splits the job
    • Specialist agents for research, drafting and review
    • Work checked before it is handed back
    • Built on the agent framework that fits your stack
  9. 09 / 09

    Agents inside your product

    Agent features built into your own app or SaaS product, working on your users' data within their permissions.

    • Agent features inside your app or SaaS
    • Each user's data, within their permissions
    • Usage and cost limits per customer
    • Actions confirmed by the user before they run

Our AI agent development process

Six steps, from the workflow it takes on to an agent your team can trust to work on its own.

  1. 01Scope

    One workflow picked and mapped, with the number the agent has to beat.

  2. 02Plan

    The agent's tools, permissions and guardrails agreed, with a prototype on your systems and a dated estimate.

  3. 03Build

    Built and connected to your APIs, and scored against an evaluation set as it grows.

  4. 04Test

    Run in shadow on real cases, with every failure reviewed before it acts on its own.

  5. 05Launch

    Live on real work, with monitoring and a human handoff from day one.

  6. 06Maintain

    Re-tested when a model or tool changes and improved from the logs, or handed over to your team.

AI agent guardrails

Controls we build into an agent, chosen for what it may do.

  • Tool permissions

    Each tool gets its own access, set in the tool rather than in the prompt.

  • Approval steps

    Actions you choose, such as refunds or deletions, wait for a person to approve them.

  • Handoff to a person

    When it's unsure or missing a fact, the case goes to your team with what it found.

  • Testing on your cases

    Changes to prompts, models or tools are tested on your real cases before release.

  • Activity logs

    What it read, what it called and what came back, recorded for every case.

  • Monitoring and alerts

    Quality, errors and cost watched in production, with an alert when they drift.

  • Injection protection

    Text in emails and documents is read as data, never as instructions, and personal details can be masked.

  • Spend and step limits

    A ceiling on steps, time and cost for each case, so a loop can't run up a bill.

  • Model choice per task

    The model picked for quality, cost and speed on each task, with a fallback.

Ways to start

Starting something new with AI, or adding it to software you already have.

Something new

  • Build a first version

    An AI MVP with the features that matter most, to launch and learn.

  • Build the whole product

    An AI product designed, built and launched in full, by one team.

  • Extend your team

    AI engineers join your team, or a dedicated team runs the work.

Software you already have

Industries we build software for

Custom software development across industries: web, mobile and AI applications, built and security-audited by one team.

  • A modern hospital patient room in the evening, a made bed beside a patient monitor and an IV stand

    Healthcare & MedTech

    Healthcare and medical software development: patient portals, telemedicine apps, EHR integrations and clinical dashboards.

  • A phone showing a mobile banking app beside a black metal payment card on a stone table

    Fintech & Payments

    Fintech and payment app development: digital wallets, payment gateways, mobile banking apps and lending platforms.

  • A streetwear store with a wall of hoodies and jerseys, a lit sneaker wall and a terrazzo display of tees and caps

    Retail & Ecommerce

    Ecommerce development for online stores, mobile shopping apps, point-of-sale software and inventory management.

  • A brass luggage trolley with suitcases and a coat in a modern hotel lobby, beside the reception desk

    Travel & Hospitality

    Travel and hospitality software: booking engines, hotel management systems, travel apps and supplier integrations.

  • A robotic assembly line in a smart factory, with robot arms in glass cells and autonomous robots carrying parts

    AI & Automation

    AI development and AI automation: AI agents, chatbots, document processing and automated business workflows.

  • A software team's studio with a product roadmap of sticky notes on a whiteboard above a shared desk

    SaaS & Marketplaces

    SaaS and marketplace development: multi-tenant platforms, subscription billing, user roles and vendor payouts.

  • Parcels on a conveyor in a fulfilment warehouse, with tall pallet racking and a forklift behind

    Logistics & Supply Chain

    Logistics and supply chain software: fleet and warehouse management, route planning and shipment tracking.

  • A university library atrium with study tables, glass study rooms and a recording room beneath tiers of bookshelves

    Education & EdTech

    EdTech and education app development: learning management systems, e-learning platforms, virtual classrooms and assessments.

  • A secured glass door with a fingerprint reader beside a long data centre aisle of server racks

    Cybersecurity

    Cybersecurity software: identity and access management, SIEM dashboards and compliance tooling, plus security audits and penetration testing.

  • A newly built apartment's living room and kitchen at dusk, floor-to-ceiling windows onto residential towers and a tower crane

    Real Estate & PropTech

    Real estate and PropTech software development: property management systems, listing portals, agent CRMs and tenant apps.

  • A law firm's double-height library at dusk, a long walnut meeting table laid with a contract, a fountain pen and case binders

    Legal & LegalTech

    Legal software development: case and contract management, legal document management and eDiscovery tools.

  • An esports arena before a final, a fantasy battle map on the giant screen above two lit team desks and a silver cup on a plinth

    Gaming & Esports

    Gaming and esports software: game backends, multiplayer matchmaking, tournament platforms, player accounts and in-game payments.

We also build software for insurance (insurtech), government (govtech), energy and media. If your industry is not listed, we can still build for it.

Software we run in production

Three products of our own, designed, built and kept running by the team that would build your agent.

  • Retail · SaaS

    A point-of-sale system that keeps sales, stock and receipts together on till, tablet and phone.

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  • Travel

    A travel booking app whose AI assistant finds flights, hotels and trip ideas, through to a confirmed booking.

  • AI

    Silvia AI

    An AI assistant for customer support and sales that answers questions and guides buyers.

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Questions about AI agents

What teams ask before they hand work to an agent, answered plainly.

Ask your own
What is an AI agent, and how is it different from a chatbot or a workflow?

A chatbot answers, and a workflow follows the same fixed steps every time. An agent is given a goal and a set of tools, decides which steps to take and takes them — looking up an order, updating a record, sending a reply — within limits you set. Where the steps never change, a workflow is cheaper, and we'll say so.

What can an agent do on its own, and what needs a person?

You decide, action by action. Reading and drafting usually run on their own; anything that moves money, deletes data, changes access or contacts many people waits for a person's approval, with the agent's reasoning beside it. The limits live in the tools themselves, not only in the prompt.

How do agents connect to our systems?

Through your APIs, as tools the agent may call, each with its own permissions — or through MCP servers we build, so every agent you run can use the same tools. Where a system has no API, an agent can work its web interface, but we use that last.

How do you know an agent is good enough to launch?

Before we build, we collect real cases from your history with the right outcome for each, and agree the score the agent has to reach. Every change is scored against them, and the agent then works alongside your team in shadow, on live cases, before it acts on its own.

What happens when the agent gets something wrong?

It's designed for it. When it's unsure, it hands the case to a person with what it found; every step is traced, so you can see why it did what it did; and the case joins the evaluation set, so the same mistake fails the next release instead of reaching a customer.

How do you stop prompt injection and data leaks?

An agent gets only the tools and data its job needs, and what it reads — emails, web pages, documents — is treated as data, never as instructions. Personal and payment details are masked where the model doesn't need them, and every release is tested with injection and leak attempts.

Which models and frameworks do you build agents with?

Claude, GPT, Gemini or open models such as Llama and Mistral, chosen per task by testing them on your cases; LangGraph, the OpenAI Agents SDK or the Claude Agent SDK, or n8n where your team already runs it. We're not tied to any of them, and you can change models later without a rebuild.

How long does a first agent take?

Choosing the workflow and writing the evaluation set takes one to two weeks, a working agent on your data two to six, and a shadow run a few weeks more before it acts on its own. The estimate sets out the timeline before any work starts.

What does an agent cost to build and to run?

Building depends on the workflow and the systems it touches; after a first call we send a written estimate. Running cost is mostly model usage per case, which we estimate before we build and cap in production with limits on steps and spend.

Do you build systems of several agents?

When one agent isn't enough — a job that needs research, drafting and review, say — we build a coordinator that hands each part to a specialist agent and checks the result. We start with one agent, though: most workflows don't need more, and fewer moving parts are easier to trust.

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