AI Agent Development

We Build AI Agents. We Also Run Our Own.

Agents that take real actions like generating and sending emails, scoring and analyzing data, creating invoices, fixing bugs, and reviewing code. Not chatbots that just talk. We build agentic workflows for products, and we run three of our own to operate this company. Here's what we've shipped.

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AI agents automating real work across email, data, invoices, and code in a dashboard
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Agents that do work, not agents that chat

The line between a demo and a real agent is whether it takes actions with consequences. A chatbot answers a question. An agent sends the email, updates the record, moves the money, and opens the pull request, and it's trusted to do it correctly.

That's a much higher bar. It means tool-calling that actually works, error handling for when a step fails, guardrails so the agent can't do the wrong thing, and evaluation to prove it does the right thing. We know that bar because we cleared it for our own operations: our agents send real emails, touch real money, and change real code.

Agents we've built and run

This is our strongest proof: we don't just build agents for clients. We bet our own company on them.

Formester: Agentic Post-Submission Workflows

When a form submission arrives, Formester runs agentic actions: generate emails, score and analyze the submission data, and any custom action you configure. A real workflow-based system, live in a production SaaS rated 4.7/5 on G2.

Freddy: Our Finance Agent

Freddy runs parts of our own finance operation. It creates invoices, sends emails, and runs the numbers. A multi-action agent that touches money and communication, built on openclaw/nanoclaw.

Dev Agent

We run a dev agent that fixes bugs in our own engineering workflow. It's how we know what it takes to make an agent reliable enough to touch a real codebase.

Code-Review Agent

A code-review agent that reviews code as part of our own engineering process. An agent doing real, consequential work on our production systems.

Formester: RAG Grounding

Our agents can be grounded in a fed knowledge base via a RAG system, so they answer and act from specific data. Architected to scale to larger datasets.

PerformLine: Client AI Delivery

PerformLine builds AI solutions for compliance monitoring, flagging content that breaks the rules. We've been their engineering partner for 2+ years: proof we deliver AI for paying clients, not just ourselves.

You might not need an agent

  • A single prompt or a simple automation already does the job. If a Zapier step or one LLM call covers it, a full agent is overkill. Build the simple thing.
  • The task has no real actions or consequences. If nothing needs to be done and it just needs to be answered, you may want a chatbot or a search feature, not an agent.
  • You can't yet describe the steps a human takes. Agents automate a real workflow. If the workflow isn't clear, automating it just makes the confusion faster.

We'll tell you honestly when a full agent is the wrong tool. Building the overkill version helps no one.

How we build agents

1

Map the workflow

We break down the real steps a human takes today, including the edge cases. The agent automates a workflow, so the workflow has to be understood first.

2

Define the actions & tools

What the agent is allowed to do: the tool calls, the systems it touches, the boundaries. This is where trust is engineered.

3

Ground it

RAG and context so the agent acts on your data and rules, not generic assumptions.

4

Guardrails & eval

Limits on what can go wrong, and evaluation to prove the agent does the right thing before it's trusted with consequences.

5

Ship & monitor

Into production, watched closely. An agent that takes actions needs observability so you catch problems before they compound.

An agent you can't trust with consequences is just a demo. Ours touch real money and real code.

Tech We Build Agents With

Agent Frameworks

openclawnanoclawTool calling

Models

ClaudeGPTOpen models

Grounding

RAGVector databasesKnowledge bases

Reliability

EvaluationGuardrailsMonitoring

Frequently Asked Questions

What is an AI agent, and how is it different from a chatbot?
A chatbot answers questions. An AI agent takes actions with consequences. It sends emails, updates records, creates invoices, opens pull requests, or triggers other systems, and it's trusted to do so correctly. Building an agent means engineering reliable tool-calling, error handling, guardrails, and evaluation, not just wiring up a conversation. That gap is exactly what separates a demo from a production agent.
What does an AI agent actually cost?
It depends on how many actions the agent takes and how many systems it touches. A single-step agent is far cheaper than a multi-step one that spans several tools with money or code on the line. We scope the workflow first and price transparently, and if a simple automation or one prompt would do the job, we'll tell you rather than sell you an agent you don't need.
Have you actually built and run AI agents, or just talked about it?
We run three agents to operate our own company: Freddy (finance: invoices, emails, running the numbers), a dev agent that fixes bugs, and a code-review agent. Our SaaS, Formester, runs agentic post-submission workflows in production. And we've delivered AI for a paying client, PerformLine. We bet our own operations on agents, and that's the proof.
Can an agent work with my existing tools and data?
Yes. Agents earn their keep by acting inside your real systems, like your CRM, email, database, code repo, or internal tools, and by being grounded in your data through RAG. Most of the engineering is exactly this: safe, reliable tool-calling and grounding so the agent acts on your reality, not generic assumptions.
How do you keep an agent from doing the wrong thing?
Guardrails and evaluation. We define exactly what actions the agent is allowed to take and where the boundaries are, add error handling for failed steps, evaluate whether it does the right thing before trusting it with consequences, and monitor it in production. Because our own agents touch real money and real code, we treat this as non-negotiable.
What frameworks and models do you use to build agents?
We build on agent frameworks including openclaw and nanoclaw with tool-calling, and we're model-agnostic, using Claude, GPT, or open models, chosen for the accuracy, cost, latency, and privacy the task needs. Grounding is typically RAG over a knowledge base, with evaluation and monitoring around it.

Want an agent that actually does the work?

Tell us the workflow you want to automate. We'll tell you honestly whether an agent is the right tool, and if it is, how we'd build one you can trust with real actions.

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