Service 01
Intent Mapping & Knowledge Extraction
We surface what you know before we automate what you do.
The situation
Your organization runs on knowledge that lives in people’s heads — the operations manager who knows which vendors are reliable, the compliance officer who knows the edge cases the policy manual missed, the sales engineer who knows which objections are real. This knowledge is your most valuable asset and your biggest bottleneck. Until it’s explicit, no agent can use it.
What we do
We spend 2–4 weeks inside your organization conducting structured knowledge extraction sessions with the people who know how things actually work. We don’t just document processes — we extract the decision heuristics, the edge cases, the judgment calls that make the difference between a process that works on paper and one that works in reality.
We translate everything into a knowledge architecture: structured specifications that are simultaneously human-readable and agent-legible. Decision frameworks become Given-When-Then scenarios. Heuristics become classification rules. Tribal knowledge becomes searchable, versioned, institutional intelligence.
What you receive
- Artifact Knowledge Architecture — structured specifications, decision frameworks, and heuristics codified in both human-readable and agent-legible formats
- Artifact Workflow Decomposition — every process mapped on the Determinism Spectrum with recommended autonomy levels
- Artifact Specification Layer — Given-When-Then acceptance criteria for every automated workflow
- Artifact Institutional Knowledge Base — versioned documentation that serves onboarding, training, and agent development
Best for
Organizations where critical knowledge lives in people’s heads and processes depend on judgment that hasn’t been articulated
Trigger moment
You tried to build an agent and it failed because it didn’t know what your team knows tacitly
“We surface tacit knowledge before we generate automation. Specifications, examples, and decision frameworks come first; code, prompts, and tools follow.”
Tao — Principle 6 What this unlocks
The Knowledge Architecture and Specification Layer become the foundation for Tool Architecture & Governance — where tools and harness are designed against the intent you’ve now made explicit.
Service 02
Tool Architecture & Governance
We design the tools agents actually need — not the APIs you already have.
The situation
Your team wrapped existing APIs in natural language descriptions and called them "agent tools." The demo worked. Production didn’t. Agents hallucinate file paths, call the wrong endpoints, and produce outputs that look plausible but miss what your users actually need. The gap between what an API does and what an agent needs is where all the engineering effort belongs.
What we do
We audit your existing tool surface — every API, CLI, MCP server, and integration your agents touch — and evaluate each one against our Three-Layer Tool Architecture.
The service layer contains your low-level system tools. The workflow layer sits above — your business logic. The domain layer is agent-specific: intention-shaped tools that encode what the agent is trying to accomplish. Instead of get_crm_records, your agent gets prepare_customer_meeting.
What you receive
- Audit Tool Surface Assessment — every existing tool scored for agent-friendliness
- Design Three-Layer Tool Catalog — service, workflow, and domain tools mapped with contracts and examples
- Artifact Intention-Based Tool Specs — redesigned tool interfaces shaped around what agents are trying to accomplish
- System Tool Governance Framework — registry, naming conventions, versioning, and change management
Best for
Engineering teams whose agents are unreliable and suspect the tools — not the model — are the problem
Trigger moment
“We wrapped our APIs in MCP and it still doesn’t work”
“Raw model capability is table stakes. The differentiator is the harness around it: clear goals, tools that match human intent, context graphs, guardrails, and evaluation loops that keep systems aligned with reality.”
Tao — Principle 5 What this unlocks
The Tool Catalog and Intention Specs become the contracts that Agentic Platform Architecture builds against.
Service 03
Agentic Platform Architecture
From one chatbot to a coherent agentic layer — the blueprint for everything.
The situation
You built one agent and it worked. Now everyone wants agents. But there’s no coherent platform — each team is building independently, using different patterns, with no shared infrastructure for memory, orchestration, evaluation, or governance. You need an architecture, not more prototypes.
What we do
We design the complete harness — the environment, tools, constraints, memory systems, skills, and evaluation infrastructure that sit between the LLM and your business processes.
The architecture includes context engineering: how context flows through the system — what lives in system prompts, what’s in the structured knowledge base, what’s retrieved via tools, and what agents build themselves through progressive disclosure.
What you receive
- Blueprint Harness Architecture — complete technical design for orchestration, sub-agents, memory, context flow, and skill system
- Blueprint Governance Model — safe trajectory spaces, steward agent design, service integrity agreements
- Artifact Context Architecture — what goes where: system prompts, knowledge base structure, tool-retrieved context
- Ref impl Reference Implementation — a working proof of the architecture for your team to extend
Best for
CTOs who built one successful agent and need a platform that scales to many
Trigger moment
Three teams building agents independently, no shared patterns, growing tech debt
“The core asset is not any single use case, but the agentic layer: prompts, tools, policies, orchestration, and evaluation. Every improvement to this layer must compound across clients and use cases.”
Tao — Principle 3 What this unlocks
With a platform in place, Ambient Agent Design extends it into event-driven agents — and Observability & Evaluation keeps the whole system aligned with reality.
Service 04
Ambient Agent Design
Agents that don’t wait to be asked.
The situation
Your agents respond when prompted. But the real leverage is in agents that act before anyone asks — monitoring event streams, detecting anomalies, maintaining knowledge, spawning investigations when they find something worth pursuing. The transition from request-driven to change-driven systems is where agents become genuinely transformative.
What we do
We identify the key events in your ecosystem and design agents that trigger on these events to take proactive action: suggest next steps, fetch context, auto-complete routine work, or spawn focused investigations.
We implement the Inception Pattern: scheduled agents with constrained self-spawning capability. The system grows when the world is interesting and stays quiet when it isn’t.
What you receive
- Design Event Map — every key event in your ecosystem, what it means, and what agent action it should trigger
- Blueprint Spawn Architecture — the Inception Pattern with constraint sets: branching limits, temporal buffers, quality criteria
- System Prototype Ambient Agents — working agents for 2–3 priority use cases
- Blueprint Knowledge Graph Design — entity model, data sources, reconciliation logic, continuous refinement
Best for
Operations leaders whose teams spend 40% of their time on monitoring, triaging, and routing
Trigger moment
You realize the highest-value agent work happens between user requests, not during them
“The first targets for agents are the glue tasks: coordination, translation, enrichment, monitoring, and reporting. We protect human bandwidth for judgment, creativity, and relationships.”
Tao — Principle 10 Service 05
Agent Observability & Evaluation
If you can’t see what your agents are doing, they’re not working for you.
The situation
You have agents in production. They seem to work. But when someone asks "how well are they performing?" or "why did it do that?", no one can answer. You have no way to tell the difference between an agent that’s doing excellent work and one that’s confidently producing garbage.
What we do
We instrument your agents to capture what matters: input context, tools chosen, reasoning traces, decisions made, and outcomes produced. We define evaluation scenarios tied to real business goals.
We implement the compound engineering loop: when an agent struggles or fails, we treat it as a signal — identify what’s missing and feed the fix back into the harness. Every mistake becomes a permanent improvement.
What you receive
- System Observability Instrumentation — logging of input context, tool selection, reasoning traces, and outcomes
- Artifact Evaluation Suites — test scenarios defined by business goal with pass/fail criteria from your specifications
- Process Compound Loop — a systematic process for converting agent failures into harness improvements
- Recurring Agent Health Reports — monthly analysis of agent performance with prioritized recommendations
Duration
Ongoing — quarterly retainer
Best for
Teams with agents in production who can’t answer "are they working?"
Trigger moment
An agent makes an expensive mistake and no one can explain why
“We make reasoning, assumptions, and limitations visible to clients and users. No magic, no black boxes: inspectable traces, explainable policies, and honest performance characterization.”
Tao — Principle 13