Autonomous Agents

AI Agent Development — autonomous systems that take real action, safely.

We build custom AI agents that don't just answer questions — they plan, call tools, and take multi-step action across your systems, with the guardrails and approval gates that make autonomy safe to deploy.

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87%Tasks completed end-to-end*
100%Side-effects gated*
0Ungoverned writes*
Guardrails on
elhaa · agent runtime
1Goal & Allowed Tools
2Plan, Call Tools, Observe
3Approval Gate
4Action in Production Systems
Human approval required
What's included

An agent that can act — and a system that can stop it.

Planning, tool use, memory, and the guardrails that keep autonomy inside a policy you can defend.

Planner, tools, and memory

A production agent loop: decompose the goal, call the right tools, keep state, and finish the job — or stop cleanly.

02

Tool integrations

Typed, permissioned connections to the systems the agent is allowed to read and write — not an unbounded plugin list.

03

Guardrails & approval gates

Policy checks before every side-effect. High-impact actions wait for a human; the rest can run.

04

Trace evaluation harness

Multi-step runs scored on completion, policy, and cost — not just whether the last message looked right.

05

Observability & handover

Every plan, tool call, approval, and write is logged. Your team gets runbooks, not a demo notebook.

Engineering deep dive

How the agent actually acts.

The runtime loop and the approval gate — not a slide about “autonomous AI.”

1Goal, Policy, and Allowed Tool Inventory
2Plan → Tool Call → Observe Loop
3Policy Check & Approval Gate
4Write-Back to Systems + Audit Log
agent-runtime.ts
// elhaa Agent Runtime — plan, act, gate
const run = await elhaaAgent.execute({
  goal: ticket.summary,
  tools: ['crm.read', 'erp.draftCredit'],
  policy: { requireApproval: ['write', 'pay'] },
  onGate: 'pause-for-human'
});
Case study

Vendor Exception Agent That Resolves, Not Just Replies

Industrial manufacturing · Mid-market operations

The challenge

A chatbot could explain why a vendor invoice was blocked. It could not gather the missing PO, draft the credit, or update the ERP — so every exception still landed on the same two people.

The approach

We built an agent with read tools on ERP and email, a draft-credit tool, and a hard approval gate before any write. Multi-step traces were evaluated on completion and policy, then rolled out behind the existing exception queue.

Exception intake → plan & tool calls → policy check → human approval on writes → ERP update + audit log
71%Exceptions closed without a ticket
100%Writes held for approval
0Ungoverned ERP changes

*Illustrative example based on a representative engagement.

The difference

The typical approach vs the elhaa approach.

Typical approach
With elhaa
Scope
A chatbot that answers, then waits
An agent that plans, calls tools, and finishes the job
Safety
Unbounded tool access in a prompt
Typed tools, policy checks, and approval gates
Quality
Judged by whether the last message looked right
Scored on multi-step traces, policy, and completion
Ownership
A notebook nobody wants to operate
Audit logs, runbooks, and a team that can pause it
How the engagement runs

Four steps from scoped actions to a gated agent.

1

Scope the actions

Name the jobs the agent may start, the systems it may touch, and the writes that must wait for a person.

2

Design tools & policy

Specify typed tools, permissions, and approval rules before a single loop is written.

3

Build & evaluate

Implement the planner and tool layer, then score traces on completion, policy, and cost.

4

Deploy with gates

Ship behind the existing workflow, with live audit logs and a kill switch your team can use.

How success is measured

Agreed in week one, on a dashboard by go-live.

Quality

End-to-end completion

Share of goals the agent finishes without a handoff — scored on real traces, not demos.

Safety

Approval catch rate

Side-effects that hit the gate as designed. Ungoverned writes must stay at zero.

Reliability

Policy violation rate

Attempted actions outside the allowed tool set or spend limits — must trend to zero.

Economics

Cost per completed task

Tokens, tool calls, and human review time against the baseline process it replaces.

Works with your tools

Typical systems & standards.

LangGraphLangChainCrewAITemporaln8nOpenAI / Anthropic tool callingYour ERP, CRM, and ticketing APIs
Who's involved

Small teams on both sides.

From elhaa
  • Agent engineerOwns the planner, tool layer, and runtime loop.
  • Integration engineerWires typed tools to the systems the agent may touch.
  • Evaluation engineerScores traces on completion, policy, and cost.
From your side
  • Domain ownerDefines which actions are in scope and which need approval.
  • Security & platformReviews tool permissions, secrets, and the kill switch.
  • Operations contactOwns the approval queue and day-two runbooks.
FAQ

Questions about AI Agent Development.

A chatbot answers. An agent plans, calls tools, and takes multi-step action in your systems. If the job can be finished with a reply, you don't need an agent — and we'll say so.

Tools are typed and permissioned. Writes, payments, and other side-effects hit an approval gate. The agent can be paused. Every plan and tool call is audited. Autonomy is granted per action, not as a blank cheque.

Usually not at first. We start with one agent and a small tool inventory. Multi-agent orchestration is added only when a single loop can't own the job without becoming unreviewable.

We evaluate full traces — goal in, actions out — against completion, policy, and cost thresholds. A fluent last message is not a pass.

Yes — that's the point. We wrap the systems you already use as tools with explicit permissions, rather than asking you to move the work into a new product.

Sounds like your situation?

A 30-minute call. We'll tell you honestly whether this is the right solution — and what it would take.

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