Custom AI builds & agents

When off-the-shelf can't do it, I build it.

Bespoke AI agents, chatbots, and copilots; custom integrations between systems that have no ready-made connector; and full custom apps — designed for your exact workflow and shipped with the same eval + guardrail discipline that keeps them correct and safe in production. When no SaaS or no-code tool fits, this is the build.

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what you get

Custom agents & copilots

Agents that plan, call your tools, and complete a real task — LangGraph-style orchestration with explicit state, tool boundaries, retries, and approval gates where the risk is.

Chatbots grounded in your data

Support and internal assistants that answer from your docs, policies, and tickets — with citations and a scope guard — not from the open internet or the model's imagination.

Bespoke integrations

Connect systems that have no ready-made connector — APIs, webhooks, or custom middleware that speaks both sides, with error handling and an audit trail. One connected system, not copy-paste between tabs.

Custom apps & internal tools

The app, admin panel, or ops dashboard your workflow actually needs — full-stack, with the right permissions and audit trail — instead of forcing your process into someone else's template.

The eval + guardrail layer

The part most custom AI ships without: a golden set, adversarial safety probes, and a CI gate that catches a wrong or unsafe answer before your users do. Every custom build gets it.

Ownership + runbook

It lands in your repo and your accounts with a runbook and a walkthrough, so your team runs and extends it without me — and the work outlives me being unavailable.

fixed scope · quoted after a scoping week · your repo, your accounts, your stack

how we work together
Scoping & Spec
~1 week · scoped & quoted

A spec and architecture for the custom build — the agent or integration shape, the data flow, the tools it needs, and where the eval/guardrail layer goes. A concrete plan and quote you own.

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Working Prototype
~2 weeks · scoped & quoted

The core custom flow doing the real task end to end on your data, behind a basic gate — so you can judge it for yourself before committing to the full build.

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Custom Build
~4–8 weeks · scoped & quoted

The production system — agent, chatbot, app, or integration — wired into your stack with the eval + guardrail layer, deployed with a runbook your team owns at handoff.

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fixed-price starting points from $497, plus a custom quote for larger or unusual builds — scoped in writing before we start, so you pay for your problem, not a package · every engagement ends with a system you own — and if the scoping shows I can’t help, I’ll say so and it costs nothing

proof, not promises
This site's concierge The AI sales assistant on this site is a custom agent I built — grounded, scoped, and red-teamed to 10/10 on the adversarial suite. See the results → sage-kernel A custom agent / SDLC operating system I built and run — a proof-first, MCP-native platform orchestrating 100+ tools. Custom agents at real scale → llm-eval-gate The public, keyless guardrail layer that ships inside every custom AI build — so the bespoke agent stays correct and safe →
worked example

A custom agent you can try right now.

The concierge on this site isn't a chatbot widget bought off a shelf — it's a custom agent I built: it scopes a project, routes intent, and answers from a grounded knowledge base, with a hard consent gate on anything it does on your behalf. Then I did the part most people skip — I red-teamed my own agent and published the result.

the build

A grounded, scoped custom agent — intent routing, knowledge base, consent gate — live on this site.

the proof

Red-teamed 10/10 on the adversarial suite — a custom agent with the guardrails to match.

Every custom build ships this way: the bespoke thing, plus the proof it behaves. The method is the same on your project.

questions
What counts as a "custom" build?

Anything off-the-shelf can't do: a bespoke agent that runs your specific workflow, a chatbot grounded in your own data, an integration between systems that have no ready-made connector, or a full custom app instead of a template. If a SaaS or no-code tool already does it well, I'll tell you to use that.

Do you build multi-agent systems?

Yes, when the logic is genuinely agentic — a LangGraph-style orchestration with explicit state, tool-use boundaries, retries, and human approval checkpoints, instrumented so you can see every step it took. My own agent OS (sage-kernel) runs 100+ tools this way.

Can you integrate with our system?

If it has an API, a webhook, or a data export, almost always. If it doesn't, I build the middleware — a small service that speaks both sides, with proper error handling and an audit trail. The point is one connected system, not copy-paste between tabs.

No-code or real code?

Whichever your team can own after I leave. n8n / Make / Zapier for linear flows, code when the logic genuinely earns it. I lead with the one that leaves you the most maintainable system, not the one that's fastest for me to build.

How is a custom AI build kept safe?

Every custom AI build ships with the eval + guardrail layer: a golden set, adversarial safety probes, and a CI gate that catches a wrong or unsafe answer before your users do. The sales assistant on this very site is a custom agent I built — and it's red-teamed to 10/10.

How do you price this, and what do we own?

Scoped and quoted in writing after a short call — fixed scope, not open-ended hours. Everything lands in your repo and your accounts with a runbook and walkthrough, nothing retained on my side after handoff.

15 minutes. Bring the thing no tool can do.

You leave with a concrete plan either way — the call is free and the plan is yours.

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