AI Agentic Systems & Data

Systems that think, decide and act on your data.

Agent traceExample
  1. ▸plannerdecomposed brief into 4 steps
  2. ▸memoryrecalled 3 prior decisions
  3. ▸retriever12 chunks · rerank top 5
  4. ▸executorstep 2 · drafted refund check
  5. ✕criticrejected step 3 · retry

Agents, knowledge and data engineered into one accountable operating layer. From retrieval and memory to orchestration, evaluation and governance, we build AI that leaves the chat window and does the work.

  • Agent runtimes
  • Multi-agent orchestration
  • RAG and knowledge graphs
  • Data platforms and pipelines
  • Evaluation and observability
  • Guardrails and governance

01Point of view

AI becomes valuable when it leaves the chat window and enters the operation. We engineer the whole intelligence loop, on data you can trust.

02AI system

Ten layers. One loop.

AI that does real work is a system, not a model. We engineer every layer of it, and every layer strengthens the next: from the interface people trust down to the economics that let it scale.
  1. AI product and interaction design

    Design

    Intelligence earns adoption at the point of interaction.

    We design AI people can understand, direct and trust.

    • Conversational UX
    • Agent interfaces
    • Copilots
    • Generative UI
    • Human-in-the-loop review
    • Approval experiences
    1. Clear intent
    2. Visible state
    3. Controlled action
  2. Data and knowledge architecture

    Knowledge

    Useful intelligence starts with usable knowledge.

    We turn fragmented information into retrievable operating context.

    • Databases
    • Ingestion and retrieval
    • Embeddings
    • Vector stores
    • Knowledge graphs
    • RAG pipelines
    1. Raw information
    2. Connected knowledge
    3. Relevant context
  3. Model and inference engineering

    Intelligence

    The right model is a system decision, not a popularity contest.

    We engineer the intelligence layer around quality, speed, control and cost.

    • Model selection
    • Model routing
    • Structured outputs
    • Fine-tuning
    • Multimodal systems
    • Inference optimisation
    1. Right model
    2. Right task
    3. Right economics
  4. Context and memory systems

    Memory

    Every useful system remembers what matters.

    We give AI the continuity to understand the user, the work and the moment.

    • Short-term context
    • User state
    • Persistent memory
    • Semantic memory
    • Retrieval
    • Context management
    1. Signal
    2. Recall
    3. Continuity
    4. Relevance
  5. Agent harness and runtime development

    Agency

    Agents need a harness before they need autonomy.

    We build the runtime that turns model capability into dependable execution.

    • Planning
    • Execution
    • State machines
    • Checkpoints and routing
    • Retries and recovery
    • Reasoning workflows
    1. Plan
    2. Execute
    3. Check
    4. Recover
    5. Complete
  6. Multi-agent orchestration

    Orchestration

    One agent performs a task. A coordinated system moves the work.

    We orchestrate specialised agents around a shared outcome and accountable handoffs.

    • Agent delegation
    • Supervisors
    • Handoffs
    • Parallel execution
    • Workflow coordination
    • Distributed systems
    1. Delegate
    2. Coordinate
    3. Hand off
    4. Converge
  7. Tools, actions and integrations

    Action

    Intelligence creates value when it can touch the real world.

    We connect agents to the software, data and actions that businesses already depend on.

    • APIs
    • Model Context Protocol (MCP)
    • Browser automation
    • Databases
    • Enterprise software
    • Function calling
    1. Understand
    2. Choose a tool
    3. Act
    4. Confirm
  8. Evaluation and observability

    Evaluation

    If we cannot observe it, we cannot improve or trust it.

    We make AI quality visible from development through production.

    • Automated evals
    • Regression testing
    • Tracing
    • Task-success metrics
    • Hallucination detection
    • Production monitoring
    1. Trace
    2. Measure
    3. Diagnose
    4. Improve
  9. Security, guardrails and governance

    Governance

    Trust is architecture, not a policy document.

    We engineer control, accountability and protection into every layer.

    • Permissions
    • Sandboxing
    • Prompt-injection defence
    • Data protection
    • Auditability
    • Policy enforcement
    1. Least privilege
    2. Safe execution
    3. Auditable decisions
  10. AI infrastructure and economics

    Scale

    AI economics must work before AI ambition can scale.

    We optimise the infrastructure so intelligence stays fast, resilient and commercially viable.

    • Deployment
    • Model serving
    • Latency
    • Caching
    • Token optimisation
    • Inference-cost engineering
    1. Lower latency
    2. Higher utilisation
    3. Better unit economics

03Data foundation

Agents are only as good as their data.

  1. Ingest
  2. Clean and chunk
  3. Embed
  4. Link
  5. Assemble

Stage 01 · Ingest

Every source, one pipeline.

Documents, tables, events and logs arrive from wherever they live. Batch and streaming pipelines land them in a lakehouse or warehouse with lineage from the first byte.

  • Batch and streaming
  • Change data capture
  • Lakehouse
  • Warehousing

04Autonomy

Autonomy is a setting.

Not a leap of faith. We design the control model first, then raise autonomy one notch at a time, as evaluations earn the trust.

Assist

AI answers. People act.

Who decides
People. The AI suggests, drafts and answers on request.
Approvals
Every output is read and used by a person.
Guardrails
Grounded answers with citations, content filters.
Best for
Research, drafting and search across company knowledge.
Human touchpoints

05Evaluation

Measured, not hoped.

Every agent ships with an eval suite, tracing and production monitors. Quality, latency and cost per task are numbers on a dashboard, not opinions in a meeting.
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✕ case 14 · refund over limit · approval skipped

✕ case 38 · citation missing · groundedness 0.61

▸ gate · 2 regressions · blocked from release

Task success by version

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  1. planner
  2. memory.recall
  3. retriever.search
  4. rerank
  5. llm.generate
  6. critic.check
  7. tool:mcp crm.update

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We trace every step an agent takes, score runs against golden datasets, and gate releases on regressions. The same telemetry watches production for drift in quality, latency and cost.

06Capabilities

What we engineer.

Six capabilities, one accountable system. Pick one to see what we build and what you take away.

Harnesses that turn a model into a dependable worker: planning, state, checkpoints, retries and recovery, with typed tools and hard budgets on steps and spend.

You receive

  • 01Agent runtime and state machine
  • 02Typed tool registry
  • 03Checkpointing and resumable runs
  • 04Failure and recovery playbooks

Supervisors, specialists and handoffs designed around one shared outcome. Parallel where it pays, sequential where accountability matters.

  • Agent topology and handoff contracts
  • Supervisor and routing logic
  • MCP and A2A integrations
  • Shared state and conflict handling

Retrieval that finds the right fact: structured chunking, hybrid search, reranking, entity graphs and permission-aware context assembly.

  • Ingestion and chunking pipeline
  • Vector and graph stores
  • Retrieval and reranking service
  • Retrieval quality benchmarks

The foundation under every agent: batch and streaming pipelines, lakehouse and warehouse models, data contracts and quality monitoring.

  • Pipelines and orchestration
  • Lakehouse or warehouse model
  • Data contracts and quality monitors
  • Lineage and catalogue

Eval suites built from your real tasks, tracing on every run and production monitors for quality, latency and cost per task.

  • Golden datasets and eval suites
  • Regression gates in CI
  • Tracing and quality dashboards
  • Latency and cost budgets

Least-privilege tools, sandboxed execution, prompt-injection defence, data protection and an audit trail for every decision an agent makes.

  • Threat model and red-team findings
  • Policy enforcement layer
  • PII detection and redaction
  • Audit logs and approval flows

07Stack

Model-agnostic. Stack-fluent.

Representative technologies across the ten layers, not a fixed stack. We choose per problem, on quality, control and cost.

  • AI SDK UI✕
  • CopilotKit✕
  • assistant-ui✕
  • AG-UI Protocol✕
  • OpenAI ChatKit✕
  • Gradio✕
  • Streamlit✕
  • PostgreSQL✕
  • Pinecone✕
  • Qdrant✕
  • Neo4j✕
  • Weaviate✕
  • Unstructured✕
  • Apache Kafka✕
  • Elasticsearch✕
  • OpenAI API✕
  • Anthropic Claude API✕
  • Google Gemini API✕
  • Hugging Face Transformers✕
  • vLLM✕
  • NVIDIA TensorRT-LLM✕
  • LiteLLM✕
  • Unsloth✕
  • Mem0✕
  • Zep✕
  • Letta✕
  • LangMem✕
  • Cognee✕
  • Graphiti✕
  • Redis✕
  • Supermemory✕
  • LangGraph✕
  • OpenAI Agents SDK✕
  • Google Agent Development Kit✕
  • Pydantic AI✕
  • Mastra✕
  • Strands Agents SDK✕
  • Temporal✕
  • Restate✕
  • Microsoft AutoGen✕
  • CrewAI/
  • Semantic Kernel/
  • LlamaIndex AgentWorkflow/
  • Agent2Agent (A2A)/
  • NVIDIA NeMo Agent Toolkit/
  • Agno/
  • CAMEL-AI/
  • Model Context Protocol/
  • Composio/
  • Pipedream Connect/
  • Browserbase/
  • Playwright/
  • Apify/
  • Zapier MCP/
  • Arcade/
  • Langfuse/
  • Arize Phoenix/
  • LangSmith/
  • W&B Weave/
  • Braintrust/
  • TruLens/
  • Ragas/
  • OpenTelemetry/
  • NVIDIA NeMo Guardrails/
  • Guardrails AI/
  • Lakera/
  • Microsoft PyRIT/
  • Presidio/
  • Open Policy Agent/
  • HashiCorp Vault/
  • Amazon Bedrock Guardrails/
  • Docker/
  • Kubernetes/
  • KServe/
  • NVIDIA Triton/
  • Ray Serve/
  • BentoML/
  • SkyPilot/
  • Vercel AI Gateway/

08FAQ

Questions, answered.

Something else on your mind? Write to hey@asymmetri.in.
  • An agentic AI system is software in which AI models do more than answer questions: they plan a task, retrieve the context they need, call tools and APIs to act, check their own work and hand off to people or other agents. Asymmetri engineers these systems end to end, from data and knowledge to the agent runtime, orchestration, evaluation and governance, so the AI completes real work inside your operation instead of living in a chat window.

  • We build an evaluation suite from your real tasks before an agent ships, then run it as a regression gate on every change to prompts, models, tools or data. In production every run is traced, and we monitor task success, groundedness, latency and cost per task, with alerts when quality drifts. Tools such as Langfuse, LangSmith, Arize Phoenix, Braintrust and OpenTelemetry are representative of what we use.

  • No. Asymmetri is model-agnostic. We choose models per task on quality, speed, control and cost, and often route between several, including OpenAI, Anthropic Claude, Google Gemini and open-weight models served with tools like vLLM. Routing and evaluation are built in, so you can change models as the market moves without rebuilding the system.

  • Governance is designed into the architecture. Agents get least-privilege access to tools and data, risky actions run in sandboxes or wait for human approval, inputs are screened for prompt injection, personal data is detected and redacted, and every decision is logged for audit. Autonomy is raised one step at a time, from assist to copilot to agent, only as evaluations earn that trust.

  • Bring us the hard problem. We start by framing the valuable decision or workflow, then design the interaction and control model, engineer the agent and its data foundation, prove performance, safety and economics with evaluations, and operate it in the real workflow. Write to hey@asymmetri.in to begin.

09Next practice

Application Development↗

Products people transact with, depend on and trust.

Bring us the hard problem. We'll find the asymmetric answer.