SERVICE 02 · AGENTIC ENGINEERING

AI agents that survive contact with production

Techtiz designs, builds, and operates AI agents for production: retrieval over your documents, tool use and system integrations, and voice. Every agent ships with acceptance evidence, human approval gates on irreversible actions, a monthly cost ceiling, and rollback. One scoped workflow goes live in 6 to 8 weeks.

Evaluation gate before launch Human gate on anything irreversible Monthly cost ceiling
An AI agent module wired to a connected system, beside a retrieve-reason-act-escalate loop
The reasoning loop

Every agent retrieves, reasons, acts, and escalates on every run.

For workflows where a person reads the same screen, queries the same data, and clicks the same tools all day.

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Retrieve
RAG over your data
02
Reason
Classify & decide
03
Act
Call your tools
04
Escalate
Human in the loop
THE CATEGORY PROBLEM

Why agent projects get canceled

Gartner forecasts that more than 40% of agentic AI projects will be canceled by the end of 2027, and names 3 causes. Each is a decision made too late. We make all 3 first.

Escalating costs

Cost gets a hard ceiling and per-run telemetry, before launch.

Unclear business value

Value is defined in the specification as acceptance evidence, before code exists.

Inadequate risk controls

Risk gets human approval gates and rollback before the first customer sees it, not after the first incident.

Source: Gartner press release, 25 June 2025.

WHAT WE BUILT
01

Workflow agents

Read context, call your tools, and complete multi-step processes with exceptions handled and escalated. Proof layer: tool-use loops with typed schemas, idempotent actions, retry and backoff policy, state stored separately from the execution surface.

02

Retrieval systems

Over your own documents and data, with citations back to the source document on every answer. Proof layer: chunking and embedding strategy chosen per corpus, hybrid retrieval where lexical matters, reranking, answer grounding checks.

03

Voice agents

For intake, qualification, and follow-up, with full transcript logging. Proof layer: telephony, barge-in and latency budgets, structured extraction into your CRM, escalation on defined triggers.

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Integrations

Into your CRM, ticketing, ERP, and data stack through Model Context Protocol servers and native APIs. Proof layer: MCP where a governed tool surface is worth the overhead, native APIs where it is not. We do not add a protocol layer to justify a buzzword.

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FROM ASSISTED SESSION TO DURABLE WORKER

Not every workflow deserves a built agent on day 1

Not every workflow deserves a built agent on day 1, and pretending otherwise is how pilot budgets die. We prove the workflow in an assisted working session first. It gets promoted to a durable worker when 1 signal appears: the method has stopped changing. Promotion is 4 specific upgrades, not a rewrite: the working brief becomes a written specification, the eyeball check becomes an evaluation set, the person in the loop becomes a defined escalation rule, and the ad-hoc session becomes a governed runtime with logging and a cost ceiling. An agent built this way is mostly promotion, not invention. That is why it ships in weeks and holds in production.

ONE WORKER, ONE JOB

A worker asked to do too much cannot be evaluated cleanly

Wide workflows get unbundled into narrow workers, each with its own specification, evaluation set, and owner. A worker asked to do too much cannot be specified precisely or evaluated cleanly.

This is not a cost decision. A single agent handling intake, qualification, scheduling, and billing has a failure surface nobody can reason about, and when it degrades you cannot tell which of the 4 jobs got worse.

HOW WE KNOW IT WORKS

A demo proves it can succeed once

Production requires knowing how often it succeeds, and on what.

The evaluation set

50 to 200 graded cases per workflow at launch, drawn from your actual history including the ugly ones.

Regression cases

Every caught failure becomes a permanent regression case. The evaluation set only grows, which is what makes an agent improve month over month instead of oscillating.

3 moments

Evaluations run before launch as a gate, on every change as a regression check, and on a schedule to catch drift when a model provider ships an update you did not ask for.

Pass threshold

Written into the specification before the build starts. If the system does not clear it, it does not launch, a decision made in week 1 rather than argued about in week 8.

WHAT HAPPENS WHEN IT IS WRONG

Agents are wrong sometimes

The engineering question is what happens next.

Low confidence on a routine case

Escalates to a human with full context and the reasoning trace attached.

Retrieval finds nothing relevant

Says so and escalates. It does not answer from general knowledge.

Tool call fails or times out

Retries with backoff, then escalates. Actions are idempotent so retries cannot double-charge or double-send.

Output fails an automated verification check

Blocked before it leaves the system, logged as a regression case.

Anything irreversible sits behind a human gate by default: sending, paying, deleting, publishing, and contacting a customer for the first time. Gates are removed later against evaluation data, never against optimism.

COMPLIANCE, GOVERNANCE, AND THE AUDIT TRAIL

An engineering property, not a policy filed after launch

Every agent we build ships with these controls defined in the specification before code exists.

The audit trail

Every action is logged: what the agent read, which tool it called, what it produced, whether a human approved it, and when. Exportable without our help.

The approval matrix

Which actions run autonomously and which require a human, named by role. Changing it is a written change, never a silent config flip.

The data boundary map

What the agent may and may not read, and where each data class sits. A forwardable deliverable, not an internal note.

Retention and deletion

How long logs, traces, and embeddings are kept, and how a deletion request propagates through the retrieval index, not just the source database.

Versioning

Model, prompt, tool schema, and evaluation set are all versioned, so any output traces back to the exact configuration that produced it.

Framework alignment

NIST AI Risk Management Framework aware: govern, map, measure, and manage, sized for a mid-market company.

Sector overlays

HIPAA-aware handling with a business associate agreement where we act as subcontractor. FERPA-aware handling for education data. Human approval on anything carrying a regulatory consequence in financial services.

What we are not: a regulatory advisory firm, and we do not certify compliance. We build systems that produce the evidence your compliance function needs, and we say so the moment your question needs counsel.

WE DIAGNOSE THE LAYER, NOT THE PROMPT

Agent failures live in 4 nested layers

Most teams answer every failure by rewriting the prompt. That is why the same failure keeps returning: the fix was applied 1 to 3 layers above where the break happened.

The prompt

Where most teams apply every fix, whether or not it is where the failure actually happened.

The context it reads

A retrieval gap is not a prompt problem.

The harness around the model

A tool permission error is not a prompt problem.

The loop that runs it

A loop that never terminates is not a prompt problem.

Our runbooks name which layer actually broke and fix it there.

WHAT IT COSTS TO RUN

The agent cannot spend more than you approved

And you get told before it gets close. Per-run token and infrastructure telemetry against a hard ceiling set in the specification.

Alert thresholds

70% and 90% of monthly budget, with an automatic halt at 100%.

Model tokens per run

Estimated against expected monthly volume, with the volume assumption stated so it can be challenged.

Retrieval and vector storage

Named in the estimate published before you sign.

Orchestration and compute

Named in the estimate published before you sign.

Voice minutes

Where voice is in scope, named in the estimate.

Monitoring and logging retention

Named in the estimate published before you sign.

Model pricing moves. When it moves, your estimate is re-run and you are told, whether it moved up or down. Iteration 1: mechanism only. Currency figures restored in iteration 2 per decision D-07.

WHERE YOUR DATA GOES

Retrieval runs over your data

Retrieval runs over your data, in your environment or a dedicated tenant.

We use model provider APIs under enterprise terms that exclude your data from training. The provider and the terms are named in your specification.

Engineering is performed in Lahore, Pakistan, by Techtiz personnel under a US-formed Wyoming LLC. Access is scoped, logged, and revoked at exit.

Where a data class must not leave a jurisdiction or your boundary, we design around it and document what our side touches.

We do not hold SOC 2 Type II. If your security review requires it today, we are not your vendor yet and we say so on the first call rather than the fourth.

WHO RUNS IT AFTER LAUNCH

2 options, both agreed up front

Operate retainer

We monitor, tune, run scheduled evaluations, and respond within an agreed window.

Handover

Your team runs it. You get the runbook, the evaluation set, the dashboards, and 2 training sessions. We stay reachable for 30 days.

There is no third option where the agent quietly becomes unowned, because unowned agents are how the run cost becomes a surprise.

WHAT WE WILL NOT BUILD

The no list

Agents that take irreversible action on customers without a human gate at launch.

Agents over data we are not permitted to see.

Agents whose success cannot be written as a checkable sentence. If we cannot evaluate it, we will not ship it.

A single agent asked to do 5 unrelated jobs.

Anything where an existing tool solves it. We will tell you the tool.

Ownership

Your repositories, your IP, assigned on payment, from day 1.

Exit

30 days notice on anything monthly. Handover runbook included, not quoted separately.

Overlap

4+ hours of daily overlap with your working day, contractual.

Boundary

Work performed in Lahore by Techtiz personnel under a US-formed Wyoming LLC. Regulated data classes stay on your side and we design around that.

Named engineer

1 senior engineer accountable for the estimate, on the first call.

Sourced claims

Every non-obvious statistic on this site carries a named third-party source and a date.

For U.S. SLED prime contractors

AI agent and RAG capability, delivered as your subcontractor.

If your SLED scope calls for AI automation, RAG over a document corpus, or agent deployment, we build it behind the prime. The boundary is fixed on purpose.

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NDA-first, subcontract-only. We work behind the prime. We do not pursue prime contracts and we never face the agency.

Capability over claims. Model-agnostic agent architectures, retrieval systems, and workflow automation, mapped to your bid’s technical scope.

Governance built in. The audit trail, approval matrix, and data boundary map are part of every agent we ship, the controls a procurement security review asks for.

FAQ

The questions you were going to ask

How do you stop it hallucinating in front of a customer?

Scoped tools, retrieval over approved sources only, automated verification on outputs, an evaluation gate before deploy, and a human gate on anything irreversible. When retrieval finds nothing, the agent says so instead of inventing an answer.

Which model do you use?

Whichever wins the evaluation on your cases. We are model-agnostic by contract and re-test as models change. A vendor that locks you to 1 model is optimising for their relationship, not your result.

Who owns the prompts, the evaluation set, and the code?

You do, all 3, in your repository. The evaluation set is often the most valuable artifact of the engagement and it is yours.

Is our data training someone’s model?

No. Enterprise API terms that exclude training, named in your specification.

How long until production, honestly?

6 to 8 weeks for 1 scoped workflow. If your case history is missing or your integrations are undocumented, we say so in scoping and quote the discovery separately rather than absorbing it into an optimistic timeline.

Can we show an auditor what the agent did?

Yes. Every action, tool call, output, and human approval is logged and exportable, and model, prompt, and evaluation-set versions are tracked so any output traces back to the configuration that produced it.

Adnan Naeem, Chief Technology Officer

Written by Adnan Naeem, Chief Technology Officer

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