Custom AI agent development
Production AI agents for businesses drowning in
manual work.
We are an AI agent development company that designs, builds, and deploys custom agents connected to your real data and tools. They read records, run workflows, escalate exceptions, and brief your team — with an owned codebase and no platform lock-in.
If the requirement is mainly to answer questions rather than complete work across systems, start with our AI agent vs chatbot decision guide.
Production controls
Permissions and approvals belong outside the model.
Use a dedicated identity, least-privilege tools, deterministic approval for consequential actions, complete traces, and a tested shutdown path. The production AI agent architecture guide shows where those controls belong.
The problem
Your team is the bottleneck. Reports are late.
- Reports that take days to pull
- Spreadsheets sprawled across the org
- Workflows that need a human babysitter
- CRMs full of stale data
- "Ask Sarah" being your single point of failure
- Engineering team booked solid on revenue work
What is an agentic ops system?
Real software with a reasoning layer.
Three things real software does, plus one new thing. Most automation breaks the moment something doesn’t fit the schema. Agents handle the exceptions.
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Reads
Your data across CRM, ERP, warehouse, SaaS, sheets — wherever it lives.
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Manipulates
Records, fields, statuses. Triggers downstream workflows. Updates source-of-truth systems.
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Coordinates
Multi-step processes across systems. Hands work between agents and humans.
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Reasons
Through ambiguity using LLMs — the "it depends" cases that break Zapier.
What we build
Concrete examples.
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Executive reporting agent
"Brief me on Q-to-date pipeline by segment, flag anomalies vs. last quarter, Slack me a 5-bullet summary every Monday."
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RevOps workflow agent
"Watch HubSpot, enrich every new lead, score against ICP, route to the right AE, log activity, notify the team."
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Finance operations agent
"Pull QuickBooks + Stripe + bank, reconcile, flag anything off, draft the weekly cash report."
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Internal knowledge agent
"Let our team ask questions across Notion, Slack, and our SOPs in plain English."
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Order operations agent
"Watch Shopify orders, flag fulfillment risk, open Linear tickets, ping the ops Slack."
For more patterns across sales, finance, support, operations, HR, knowledge work, and voice, see 15 AI agent examples with controls and KPIs. When one matches your workflow, use the seven-step AI agent development process to take it from definition to a controlled production launch.
How we’re different
Owned code. Real reasoning. Days, not months.
| Coding The Brains | AI consulting | No-code shops | AI platforms | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Time to live | Days | Months | Weeks | Weeks |
| You own the code | Yes | No | No | No |
| Real reasoning | Yes | Slides | No | Yes |
| Flat price | Yes | No | Sort of | Subscription |
The three packages
Choose the smallest scope that covers the operating requirements.
24-Hour Rapid Launch
from $5k
One agent or workflow. Live tomorrow.
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5-Day Production Launch
from $12k
One end-to-end workflow, productionized.
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14-Day Enterprise Build
from $25k
Multiple workflows, full ops layer.
See details →
Need to separate implementation work from model usage, hosting, monitoring, maintenance, and human review? Use the AI agent cost guide and estimation worksheet before comparing packages.
Voice add-on
Need your ops layer to pick up the phone?
Voice agents (Twilio + ElevenLabs) attach to any package starting at $3,000. Always sold attached to an ops system, never standalone.
FAQ
Last-mile objections.
Do we own the code?
Yes, always. Shipped to your repo or ours, your choice. No platform fees, no lock-in.
What stack do you use?
Whatever fits — Python or TypeScript, Postgres, plus the LLM that fits your privacy and latency needs. We don't force a stack on you.
How fast can we start?
Most builds kick off within 7 days of signed proposal. Rapid Launch can start same-week.
Do you take equity or revenue share?
No. Flat fee, fixed timeline. That's it.
What we ship
Real code. Owned by you.
Every engagement ships to your repo. Typed, tested, documented, with a clean module layout. Below is a representative slice from a recent build.
# agents/exec_brief.py
from ctb import Agent, sources, channels
@Agent.scheduled("0 7 * * *") # 7am daily
def exec_brief(ctx):
pipeline = sources.snowflake.query(ctx.sql.weekly_pipeline)
revenue = sources.stripe.last_n_days(7)
deltas = ctx.compare(pipeline, baseline="trailing_4w")
flagged = [d for d in deltas if d.sigma > 2]
summary = ctx.llm.narrate(
prompt=ctx.prompts.exec_brief,
data={"pipeline": pipeline, "revenue": revenue, "flagged": flagged},
)
channels.slack.post("#leadership", summary, thread_handlers=[ctx.followup])
return ctx.log(metric="exec_brief.posted") Repository layout
- acme-ops/
- agents/
- exec_brief.py
- lead_router.py
- finance_recon.py
- sources/
- snowflake.py
- hubspot.py
- stripe.py
- prompts/
- exec_brief.md
- tests/
- runbook.md
- README.md
- pyproject.toml
Default stack
Stack agnostic. We ship in the language and infrastructure that fits your team — Python, TypeScript, your cloud.
Start with one workflow
Stop hiring humans
to do work an agent does better.
Book a 20-minute scoping call. We'll tell you which package fits and roughly when we can ship it.