Custom AI agents for small business: website chatbots, AI receptionists and task agents, with guardrails to match. Houston on-site, Austin remote.
Most businesses don’t need a fully autonomous agent yet. We start by picking the tier that fits the job. A support agent drafts and looks things up but leaves a human to hit send. A single-task agent is scoped tightly to one repetitive job with minimal moving parts. An end-to-end agent is trusted to run multi-step work on its own, with its own guardrails, retries, and monitoring. Most clients start at the first tier and move up only when the task calls for it and they have come to trust the agent with more. Common first agents are an AI chatbot for your website that answers the questions your team gets every day, and an AI receptionist that answers calls and takes messages. Both hand anything unusual to a person. If you only miss a few calls a day, a human answering service may be cheaper, and we’ll say so.
We wrote the tool server that gives AI agents read-only access to a live codebase and database, behind path validation, rate limiting, and query restrictions. Most of the work went into those guardrails; getting a demo running was the easy part.
If a support agent gets the job done, we won’t sell you a fully autonomous one, because the failure modes get more expensive at every tier up. That is also the honest answer to how much an AI agent costs: each one is quoted from a written scope, and the price rises with each tier, mostly in the testing and monitoring it takes to trust it.
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