Agent Build

AI agents that run
real processes

One process automated, in production, with monitoring and error handling. Fixed scope. I build it myself, and I hand it over.

The problem

AI pilots rarely fail on the model

They fail because nobody owns the process underneath. Because there's no agreement on what happens when the agent is wrong. Because it was built by someone who didn't know the business process, or designed by someone who didn't know the technology.

I sit on both sides of that table. I've run operations at C-level and I write the code. That means the question "what do we do when it's uncertain" gets answered before the build starts, not after.

What I deliver runs in production or it isn't finished. An agent that only works in a demo isn't an agent, it's a presentation.

Proof

I build this for myself too

Sentinel is an always-on monitoring and synthesis agent on my own stack. It reads across Office 365, Close CRM, GitHub, Azure DevOps, PostHog, Notion and Billit, keeps a persistent ledger of open loops, and classifies every proposed action into three tiers: act, ask, or don't touch. Escalation runs over Telegram. Access sits behind Tailscale, because the data is sensitive.

Hermes is an internal AI service with a chat frontend for the team and a bidirectional CRM integration, with RAG over the company's own knowledge.

That isn't a side project to look impressive. It's the same architecture I apply with clients: read broad, write narrow, explicit guardrails, and a human in the loop on anything irreversible.

Where this works

Processes that lend themselves to it

Reconciliation and control

Billing against CRM, payments against accounting, contract against delivery. Dull, repetitive, error-prone, and exactly what an agent is good at.

Reporting and synthesis

Weekly overviews, board packs, status reports. Pulling data from five systems and turning it into a readable narrative.

Monitoring and follow-up

Catching signals across systems, connecting them, and escalating before anyone notices by themselves.

Back office and admin

Creating records, moving data, updating statuses, chasing missing information.

Onboarding and customer follow-up

Who is stuck, where, and for how long. Followed up automatically instead of discovered monthly.

Unlocking knowledge

RAG over your own documentation, contracts and history, so the team stops searching.

Approach

How an Agent Build runs

01

Lock the scope

One process, sharply bounded. We agree up front what the agent may decide, what it must escalate, and what it never touches.

02

Build against real data

No synthetic test set. I build against your actual systems, in an environment where mistakes break nothing.

03

Guardrails and observability

Logging, error handling, escalation paths and a clear threshold above which a human decides. This is the part pilots skip.

04

Rollout and handover

In production, with documentation and a team that knows how it works and how to change it. I'm not a dependency.

Stack

What I work with

Claude and OpenAI APIMCP integrationsPython and FastAPIPostgreSQLLanceDB and QdrantRAGKubernetesTerraformAnsibleAWSDockerLinuxSelf-hosted and cloud

Got one process in mind?

Tell me which process annoys you most. In thirty minutes I'll tell you whether it suits an agent and roughly what it takes.