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AI Agent Development, AI agents that know your business - and cite their sources.

AI agents grounded in your own documents and systems - with permission-aware retrieval, source citations on every answer, and a human in the loop wherever a decision matters. Delivered bilingually from Hanoi and Yokohama.

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Common questions about this service:
What is the typical team composition?How do you handle IP and security?Can I meet engineers before signing?What if I want to scale up or down?

Grounded, not guessing

Answers come from your approved knowledge, with a link back to the source document.

Permission-aware

Access is filtered at the data layer - by role, level and project - not just hidden in the UI.

AI proposes, humans decide

Agents draft, summarize and flag. People approve anything that carries consequence.

Measured, not assumed

Evaluation sets, usefulness ratings and cost dashboards from the first pilot onward.

WHAT WE BUILD

Four agent patterns

Most requests map to one of these. They share a single knowledge platform, so you can start with one and grow into the others.

KNOWLEDGE

Expert Q&A agent

Answers professional questions from your own standards, manuals and project history - always with a citation, and saying so when it is unsure.

TYPICAL USES
Internal helpdesk · onboarding · domain and product knowledge
ASSISTANT

Task assistant agent

Takes on the repetitive layer of a role: summarizing status, drafting minutes and action items, logging and categorizing issues, flagging what looks overdue.

TYPICAL USES
Status reports · meeting minutes · issue triage · reminders
ADVISORY

Review & advisory agent

Reads a document or dataset and reviews it for completeness, consistency and risk - proposing concrete improvements for a human to accept or reject.

TYPICAL USES
Requirement review · design review · project health checks
MULTI-AGENT

Agent team

Several role-specific agents sharing one knowledge platform, each with its own scope, tone and access rights, coordinated by a routing layer.

TYPICAL USES
Different roles or departments · tiered seniority · multi-tenant
REFERENCE ARCHITECTURE

Retrieval-augmented, multi-agent

A layered design so the model tier can be swapped without rebuilding the system - and so knowledge, permissions and quality stay yours.

  1. LAYER 1

    Channel

    The agent appears where people already work - Teams, Slack, your web app or LINE - as one or several distinct identities.

  2. LAYER 2

    Orchestrator

    Authenticates the user, applies permissions, detects intent and difficulty, then routes the request to the right agent, knowledge scope and model tier.

  3. LAYER 3

    Secure retrieval

    Hybrid semantic and keyword search over the knowledge base, filtered by the user’s rights before anything enters the answer context. Isolation happens at the data layer.

  4. LAYER 4

    Generation

    The language model answers strictly from retrieved context and returns citations. Cheap models handle routine questions; harder ones escalate to a stronger tier.

  5. LAYER 5

    Knowledge base

    Vector store plus original documents and metadata: content type, applicable role, sensitivity, confidence and version - with an ingest-and-approve workflow.

  6. LAYER 6

    Learning loop

    Useful conversations are nominated, reviewed by your experts and promoted into the knowledge base, so coverage and accuracy compound over time.

  7. LAYER 7

    Governance & observability

    Role, level and project permissions; full query-retrieval-answer logging for audit; dashboards for quality, usage and cost.

DEPLOYMENT OPTIONS

Three routes. We recommend the middle one.

We assess every project on feasibility, effectiveness and cost - then tell you which route fits, including when the cheapest build isn't the right one.

OPTION A

Packaged SaaS platform

Build on a vendor’s low-code agent studio with native chat integration. Fastest to stand up, least engineering required.

Feasibility
Very high
Quality ceiling
Moderate
Running cost
High, per licence
Knowledge control
Limited

Best when: you need something live quickly and your knowledge needs are straightforward.

OPTION B
RECOMMENDED

Self-built RAG on open source + LLM API

We build the orchestration and retrieval layers on mature open-source components and call models by API, with tiered routing.

Feasibility
High
Quality ceiling
Highest
Running cost
Low-moderate, per token
Knowledge control
Full

Best when: you want the best quality-to-cost balance and real control over knowledge and permissions.

OPTION C

Self-hosted open-weight models

Run open-weight models on your own GPU infrastructure. No token fees, but fixed infrastructure and MLOps cost.

Feasibility
Moderate
Quality ceiling
Moderate
Running cost
High, fixed
Knowledge control
Full, on-premise

Best when: volume is very large, or data residency rules require on-premise inference.

COST ENGINEERING

Quality where it counts, cheap everywhere else

Model pricing varies enormously by tier. Routing most traffic to a small model and escalating only hard questions is the single biggest lever on running cost - so we build it in from day one.

Tiered model routing

A small, inexpensive model answers most questions; only hard or high-stakes requests escalate to a stronger model.

Context caching

Repeated context and recurring questions are cached, which most providers discount heavily.

Batching background work

Long summarization and indexing jobs run as batch work at a lower rate, then notify the user.

Hybrid retrieval

Better retrieval means smaller prompts - accuracy and cost improve together rather than trading off.

Cost is reported per agent and per project on an operations dashboard, so spend stays visible rather than surprising you at renewal.

HOW WE DELIVER

Pilot first, then scale

Value early, risk low. Each phase ends with something in real use and a measurement you can act on.

  1. PHASE 0

    Foundation & pilot

    Stand up the retrieval framework, permission model and one agent on a narrow, well-chosen knowledge set. Establish the evaluation set and cost dashboard.

    OUTCOME
    One pilot agent answering with citations for a small user group - with numbers.
  2. PHASE 1

    Live agents

    Roll out the agents your roles need, full permission model, knowledge admin console and in-channel feedback. Start the knowledge accumulation loop.

    OUTCOME
    Agents in daily use; the knowledge base begins to compound.
  3. PHASE 1.5

    Stabilize & optimize

    Broaden knowledge coverage, standardize the ingest-and-approve process, tune routing, caching and batching, run evaluations against regression.

    OUTCOME
    Stable quality, optimized spend, both measurable per agent and project.
  4. PHASE 2

    Review & advisory

    Connect project and document systems so agents can review real work - assessing completeness, risk and health, and proposing prioritized actions.

    OUTCOME
    Agents contribute to output quality, not just answer questions.
TRUST & RISK CONTROLS

The questions every buyer asks

Will it leak knowledge between projects or clients?+
Every knowledge item is tagged by project, client and sensitivity, and retrieval filters by the user’s rights before anything reaches the model. Access is logged and auditable.
What stops it from making things up?+
Answers are grounded in retrieved documents with citations, the agent is instructed to say when it is not sure rather than guess, and a regression evaluation set runs on a schedule.
Will our data be used to train someone’s model?+
We prefer providers and channels that contractually commit not to train on your data, and the architecture keeps the model tier swappable if terms change.
What if the knowledge is wrong or out of date?+
Ingestion runs through review, everything is versioned, and outdated material can be withdrawn - so accuracy is a maintained process, not a one-off import.
How do we keep token cost predictable?+
Tiered routing, caching and batching keep the baseline low, and per-agent, per-project cost reporting makes any increase visible early.
What if the team doesn’t adopt it?+
We start with a pilot on a real pain point, measure usefulness ratings honestly, and expand only where people report the agent actually helps.
WHERE THE AGENT LIVES

Microsoft Teams

Chat 1-1 or inside a project channel.

Slack

Same agent, same knowledge, different workspace.

Your web app

Embedded panel or API for your own product.

LINE

For customer-facing agents in the Japanese market.

Have a use case in mind?

Tell us the workflow you'd like an agent to take on. We'll tell you honestly whether an agent is the right answer - and scope a pilot if it is.

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