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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.

Use the security checklist →

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.

  • Reads

    Your data across CRM, ERP, warehouse, SaaS, sheets — wherever it lives.

  • Manipulates

    Records, fields, statuses. Triggers downstream workflows. Updates source-of-truth systems.

  • Coordinates

    Multi-step processes across systems. Hands work between agents and humans.

  • Reasons

    Through ambiguity using LLMs — the "it depends" cases that break Zapier.

What we build

Concrete examples.

  • 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."

  • RevOps workflow agent

    "Watch HubSpot, enrich every new lead, score against ICP, route to the right AE, log activity, notify the team."

  • Finance operations agent

    "Pull QuickBooks + Stripe + bank, reconcile, flag anything off, draft the weekly cash report."

  • Internal knowledge agent

    "Let our team ask questions across Notion, Slack, and our SOPs in plain English."

  • 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.

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
main · clean
# 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

Python 3.12 TypeScript Postgres pgvector Redis OpenAI Anthropic

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.