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Real AI agents in production, at real volumes.

Business processes running within defined scopes, with active human gates and telemetry that gathers data on behavior, performance, and costs from day one.

Entry point

Agentic Sprint Zero

What it unlocks

Your first agents in production — in weeks, at real volumes.

What you get

Real production processes at the end of the sprint, with narrow scopes, delegated and signed authority, active human gates, and telemetry capturing behaviors, performance, and costs from day one, all under acceptance criteria defined at the start of the sprint. Narrow scopes are part of the method: they reduce the blast radius of errors and produce reliable baselines in a short time — and baselines make it possible, later on, to charge per unit of work and take on a results obligation.

How it is measured

Acceptance criteria for entry into production, verified during staging: automated evaluations by target, active human gates, collected telemetry, and costs per unit of work within the ceilings. No criteria are approved retroactively.

How long it takes

Four to six weeks.

Who it is for

COO, process owners, and line-of-business leaders who need fast results.

Less than 10%of AI-deployed use cases move beyond the pilot stageMcKinsey62%of pilots reach production in insurance — the sector that converts most; the success pattern is clear business owners, defined outcomes, and prior agreements on what “production ready” meansEXL, via Carrier Management
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Agentic Software Engineering

What it unlocks

The entry point with the lowest technical risk and the fastest evidence of value, for companies and teams that build software.

What you get

Full cycle of Agentic Software Engineering, with specification, planning, development, testing, quality assurance, code review, and product review agents, with a human gate at merge, producing auditable artifacts. Cycle time, test coverage, and defects that escape are measured from the first week.

How it is measured

Pull requests reviewed with an opinion, cycle time, coverage, and escaped defects — compared against the team's own baseline.

How long it takes

Four to eight weeks.

Who it is for

Software engineering teams, software companies, and digital agencies.

58.0% → 79.8%accuracy on Terminal-Bench 2.0 with the same model (Claude Opus 4.6), holding the model constant and varying the agent harness (Claude Code to ForgeCode): +21.8 p.p.Terminal-Bench 2.0, leaderboard
Governed agentic execution, Americas time zone

Business processes: agents, integrations, loops, and skills

What it unlocks

Agents that run business processes in a controlled and sustainable way.

What you get

Engineering that creates scalable agents with auditable processes across four practices.

  • Agentic architecture and harness engineering: process loops, decision flows, tools exposed to the agents, execution limits, and interruption points
  • Context readiness: The layer that delivers the right data to agents, with preserved sources, creates and manages context memory, and maintains consistency of process states
  • Enterprise integration: ERP, CRM, core finance, scheduling, approval, qualification, transactional, support, claims, or medical records systems — with agent credentials distinct from human ones
  • Model routing by step, choosing the most cost-effective AI model for each one given the required complexity and quality, with the cost assigned to the unit of work executed

How it is measured

Success rate per process, human intervention rate, resolution time, and cost per unit of work — compared against the baseline measured before implementation.

How long it takes

Two to eight weeks per process, depending on complexity and integrations.

Who it is for

CIO, CTO, Chief Data or AI Officer, and process owners.

−67% YoY, ~4,500× spreadtoken prices fell 67% in Q1 2026 and agentic cost still rose: an agent makes 5 to 30 calls per task, and pricing across models ranges from USD 0.04 to more than USD 180 per million tokensK2S

Custom vertical Skill Packs

What it unlocks

Agents in production with more speed and security, through skills that implement best work and compliance practices.

What you get

A library of validated skills, in an open format, each with its own evidence pack: evaluations, compliance map, and measured cost per unit. Before it reaches a client, every skill or agent — ours, from an open repository, or customized for you — goes through a validation and security test suite. Every skill brought in from outside or created in a conversation goes through a governance gate that checks security and compliance and decides to adapt, accept, or reject it, with the reason in the evidence; for an accepted skill, every call is recorded at the tool boundary, not by self-reporting.

How it is measured

Time to first result in production, initial success rate relative to the manual process baseline, and number of adversarial cases covered.

How long it takes

Applied within implementation cycles; the library grows with every operation.

Who it is for

Financial institutions, credit unions, insurers, healthcare, and document-intensive operations.

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