AI integrations that read your data and act on it

Custom AI agents, RAG pipelines, and semantic search built on your own data and your own infrastructure — engineered so the system says “I don't know” instead of making things up.

Anyone can wire a model to a prompt. The work that matters is everything around it: agents with typed tools and structured outputs, retrieval that's grounded in your real documents, and verification layers that make hallucination structurally difficult — like findings that must quote their source word-for-word, with the server checking the quote actually exists before anyone sees it.

The pattern is proven across my builds: Langley, a multi-agent crypto-risk system where deterministic code can override the LLM but only toward the safer answer; ChronosGuard, a temporal RAG auditor on pgvector that judges policies against the law as it stood on any date at ~$0.03 per audit; and a multi-channel support agent with 11 function tools that answers only from the knowledge base and escalates when it shouldn't answer at all.

I treat evaluation as part of the build, not an afterthought. Langley's honest held-out score started at F1 0.63 — which exposed a real bug a synthetic benchmark had hidden — and reached 0.94 with zero fatal errors after tuning on a training split. If a system's quality isn't measured, it isn't known.

What you get

  • AI agent design and build — OpenAI Agents SDK, typed function tools, structured outputs
  • RAG pipelines: ingestion, chunking, embedding, retrieval tuning, grounded prompting
  • Vector search on pgvector or Qdrant — usually inside the database you already run
  • Guardrails: schema validation, citation verification, deterministic safety gates, abstain-over-guess behavior
  • Evaluation harnesses — judge LLMs, held-out test sets, hallucination counters
  • Cost engineering: model-fit per task, caching, batching — with per-unit costs measured

How an engagement runs

  1. Define the failure that matters

    Every AI system has one unforgivable error — a false 'compliant', a wrong 'safe', an invented refund policy. We name it first; the architecture follows from it.

  2. Ground truth before cleverness

    A labeled, held-out evaluation set — even a small one — so quality is measured against reality, not vibes.

  3. Build with fakes in CI

    Deterministic fake providers make tests free and reliable; the real model runs in a separate eval lane.

  4. Measure, calibrate, ship

    Eval scores gate the release. After launch, the same harness keeps watching so drift gets caught by you, not your users.

Proof, not promises

Common questions

How do you stop the AI from hallucinating?
Layers, not hope: retrieval grounding so the model answers from real documents; structured outputs so claims must carry evidence; server-side verification — in ChronosGuard, every finding's quote is checked word-for-word against the source, and findings that fail are dropped and counted; and abstain-over-guess behavior, where thin data produces 'insufficient evidence' rather than a confident answer.
Which model and vector database should we use?
Whatever the task and the evals justify — not whatever is newest. Small models with good retrieval beat big models with bad retrieval, and a judge model should differ from the one being judged. For vectors I default to pgvector inside the Postgres you already run; a dedicated store like Qdrant earns its place at larger scale or for specialized filtering.
Does our data stay private?
The pipelines run on your infrastructure with your API keys; documents and embeddings live in your database. Multi-tenant systems get isolation enforced by the database itself — ChronosGuard uses Postgres Row-Level Security that fails closed, proven by a dedicated blocking test suite.
What does an AI feature cost to run?
It should be measured per unit, not guessed: ChronosGuard audits cost ~$0.03 each, tracked per run in the database. Cheap embeddings, the smallest model that passes evals, caching, and batching keep unit economics sane — and the eval harness is what lets you downgrade a model with confidence later.