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AI that delivers value beyond individuals and proof of concepts.

Many organisations view AI the same way. They open a chatbot or copilot, write a prompt, check the answer and copy it to another system. It can help, but often fails to deliver a measurable value asit is limited to that person’s time and it tends to simply move the bottleneck. Where improvements come, they stay with whoever found them, teams fragment and communications get noisier and nobody measures whether it is working.

Autonomous agents work differently. Processes are designed, considered and measurable. Agents are triggered by events and data in your systems, complete defined jobs run end to end without someone at the keyboard and only outcomes and exceptions pass to your team. They run through measured, continuous improvement loops helping boost all team members performance in unison.

Getting there takes more than a clever prompt. An agent that runs unattended needs the same discipline as any production software. With clear inputs and outputs, measures and agreed objectives and benchmarks, and audited testing against real data and security built in from the start. These are the same principles we have built digital products around since 2009.

We break each job into small tasks and give each task its own focused agent to drive performance, rather than relying on one large generalist. Every agent is tested, costed and monitored on its own, so it is easier to trust, cheaper to run and simpler to improve once it is live.

Our Approach

Opportunity Identification

You want to focus your efforts where the results are biggest, and the effort lowest.

We start where our product work always starts, business objectives, followed by engaging with the people doing the job. User interviews, ride-alongs and high-level process mapping show how work really moves between people and systems.

A high level feasibility check looks for show stoppers that would prevent the project succeeding or introduce large delays.

At the end of the process you receive a report of every opportunity discovered, scored against value, effort and risk, with recommended next steps

Opportunity Identification

Agentic Design

For each opportunity you choose, we map the current user flows and customer journey before carrying out agentic job decomposition to break the job into small, well-defined tasks.

Each task is given its own focused agent with a single brief and a benchmark it must hit.

You receive an AI service blueprint showing the journey and every agent within it, and you approve it before any build starts.

Agentic Design

Proof of Concept

Each agent for each steps is designed, created and evaluated using real sample data taken from your systems, with a cross section of quality to ensure real world conditions.

We evaluate quality against the benchmarks and refine until every sub agent passes.

Proof of Concept

Production-ready Pilot

The proven agents move onto a commercial grade framework such as LangChain.

We build the tools your agents need and expose your data to them, then integrate with your live systems and triggers, complete with guardrails for security.

Evaluations are set up during the build, so you can see the system working and continually monitor performance.

Production-ready Pilot

Run, monitor and improve

Go-live is the start of the service.

Automated LLM judges review agent outputs against your agreed service standards, every day and on every sub agent. Any drop in quality is instantly flagged.

Our team reviews performance and running costs, and tunes prompts and tools to keep quality up and costs down.

When an agent is stable, we return to your opportunity list and start on the next.

Run, monitor and improve
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Frequently asked questions

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A chatbot or copilot is driven by a person typing in a prompt. Someone has to open the tool, write a prompt, check the answer and act on it.

Autonomous agents run on their own, they are started by an event or data in your systems, such as a new enquiry or a document arriving and they completes a defined job end to end with validation and verification built in. Your team review outcomes and exceptions instead of driving every step.

The best candidates are jobs that run often, follow a recognisable pattern and draw on data you can reach, but still take up skilled people’s time.

Classifying and routing requests, extracting details from documents, checking records and drafting responses are common examples.

Our discovery phase scores every opportunity on value, volume, feasibility, data readiness and risk, so you can see why one job comes before another.

It’s all about driving performance and human trust in the system. For people to adopt and see the benefits from the system it has to perform at a consistently high level.

Large, general-purpose agents asked to do everything tend to do none of it particularly well or drift more substantially over time. When they go wrong it is hard to see why and trickier to correct.

We break each job into tasks and give each task its own agent with one brief and one benchmark. Each agent can be tested, costed and improved on its own, which makes the whole system easier to trust.

Every agent has a KPI’s agreed in the design phase. Before go-live we test with real examples from your systems to ensure that it meets that benchmark.

Once live automated LLM judges review outputs against your service standards and flag any drop in quality. Our team consistently reviews results ensuring that you have full visibility of performance.

AI agents are not deterministic so variations will appear and this is a key consideration from the offset, it is baked into our flow designs from the very outset.

The risk of a wrong output is scored at the start and we use it to decide where people stay in the loop, where traditional software is needed and where additional loops can be trusted.

Exceptions are routed to a person rather than guessed at and evaluations catch problems early. Our agentic architecture means each agent does one task and therefore risk is further limited and faults can be traced to one place and fixed quickly and easily.

No. Part of the process is an assessment of your data, including its quality, availability and if APIs for data already exist.

A clear list of what needs to be done to connect each source is created, which becomes the technical scope for the build. Our team will then work with you to build required API’s/MCP services to enable the platform to succeed.

We have been building bespoke software for global enterprises for nearly two decades and as with all software we build security is designed from the offset.

During the proof of concept, agents work on static data extracted from your systems, so nothing touches live systems. In production, each agent can only reach the specific tools and data its task needs, through connections we build and control. Guardrails and limitations are imposed throughout to ensure that everything runs in line with agreed rules.

Running costs depend mainly on how often the job runs, the model required for good result and how much model processing each run needs.

We measure the cost per run during the proof of concept, so you can weigh it against the value before you commit to a build.

Once live our team tracks running costs and keeps tuning prompts and tools to bring them down.

Ways we can help

Every business is different. The way we work reflects what you need from a partnership and evolves over time in line with what you need to meet your objectives

Consulting

The right thinking, without the build

Helping provide insights, expertise from across the industry and an independent point of view.

Ideal for when you have in house capability but need guidance and new opinions.

We bring the strategy, expertise and objectivity to solve a specific challenge or shape what’s next.

Product Teams

Everything you need to Build the Right Product.

Our own dedicated teams set up to deliver your product end-to-end.

Pre-built, high performing with the perfect mix of capabilities for your product.

There to deliver the right outcomes from strategy through build to growth and adoption, bringing everything needed to deliver the right result

Embedded Teams

Our people, your team, one goal

Our specialists join your team and work as one of you, embedded in your processes, your tools and your goals.

Ideal for bringing in additional pace to an existing team, or adding complementary expertise into your delivery teams

Managed Teams

A dedicated team, without the overheads

A dedicated team working on your behalf. Delivering the output of a high-performance agency team, with the benefits of a full in-house capability – and all without the overhead of managing it.

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