AI Agents & Agentic Tooling

AI agents & agentic tooling

AI Agents & Agentic Tooling

Agents that do the work, not just talk about it, and do it under control. Every action runs behind approvals, an audit trail, and rollback, grounded on your data with guardrails, evaluation, and observability built in from day one.

Why governance first

Agents that act need brakes.

A chatbot answers. An agent acts, calling tools, updating records, moving money and work. That leverage is the whole point, and the whole risk. We build agentic automation the way you would build any system that touches production: least-privilege access, approvals on the actions that matter, a complete audit trail, and rollback when something has to be undone. Retrieval-augmented generation keeps answers grounded on your data instead of on guesswork, and evaluation harnesses prove behavior before it ships.

  • Approvals and audit, not autopilot. High-impact actions pause for a human; everything the agent does is logged with the reason it did it.
  • Grounded on your data. RAG over your systems and vector stores, so answers cite sources instead of inventing them.
  • Your data stays yours. On-prem and private VPC options; we do not train shared models on your content.
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Illustrative offline-eval results across build iterations. Actual pass-rates measured on your task suite.

By the numbers

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In the loop on sensitive actions
What we build

The full agentic stack.

From retrieval to guardrails to observability, engineered as one governed system, not a demo bolted to an API.

Agentic automation with approvals

Multi-step orchestration where the agent plans, calls tools, and completes real work, with human approval gates on anything sensitive, an audit trail on every action, and rollback for anything reversible. Autonomy where it is safe, a checkpoint where it is not.

ApprovalsAudit trailRollbackOrchestration

Retrieval-augmented generation

RAG pipelines and vector databases that ground answers on your documents and systems, with citations, so responses are traceable, not hallucinated.

Tool use & function calling

Typed tools your agent can call safely, each one gated, logged, and scoped so the agent acts only within the boundaries you set.

Guardrails, policy & evaluation

Policy guardrails that block disallowed operations before they run, plus evaluation harnesses, offline evals and human-in-the-loop review, that measure quality, safety, and regression on your own task suite before anything reaches production.

Observability & tracing

Full-trace visibility into every step, prompt, tool call, token, and cost, so you can debug behavior and watch drift over time.

Model selection & fine-tuning

We benchmark candidates, including the latest Claude models and open-weight options, on the Zoneits Lab GPU cluster, and fine-tune when it earns its keep.

Agent guardrails

The controls around every action.

Governance is not a feature we add later. These are the primitives every Zoneits agent ships with.

Agent guardrail controls, their purpose, and how they are implemented
ControlPurposeHow it works
ApprovalsKeep a human on high-impact actionsSensitive steps pause and route to an approver before the agent proceeds
Audit trailProve what ran and whyEvery prompt, tool call, and decision is logged with inputs, outputs, and rationale
RollbackUndo cleanly when neededReversible actions are checkpointed so a change can be reverted to a known-good state
EvalsCatch regressions before releaseOffline evaluation harnesses plus human-in-the-loop review score each build on your task suite
Access scopingLimit the blast radiusLeast-privilege credentials restrict the agent to only the systems and data its task requires
How we deliver

From use case to governed production.

01 / SCOPE

Frame

We pick a use case with real payback, map the data and systems it touches, and define what “good” and “safe” mean.

02 / GROUND

Retrieve

Build the RAG layer and vector store over your data, wire up tools, and select and benchmark models on the Lab cluster.

03 / GOVERN

Guard

Add approvals, audit, rollback, policy guardrails, and access scoping; stand up evals and tracing to measure behavior.

04 / OPERATE

Run & improve

Deploy on-prem or in your VPC, monitor traces and cost, and iterate on evals as the workload and models evolve.

Questions

AI agents, answered.

Is this just a chatbot?
No. A chatbot answers questions. An agent takes actions, calling tools, updating systems, moving work forward. Because agents act, we wrap every action in governance: approvals for anything sensitive, a full audit trail of what ran and why, and rollback when something needs to be undone. The conversation is the smallest part of the build.
How do you stop an agent from doing something harmful?
Layered controls. Access is scoped so the agent can only touch the systems and data its task needs. High-impact actions pause for human approval. Policy guardrails block disallowed operations before they run. Every action is logged, and reversible actions can be rolled back. We also run evaluation harnesses offline and keep a human in the loop for sensitive workflows.
Do you use our data to train models?
No. Your data is used to ground the agent through retrieval-augmented generation and to run it, not to train a shared model. We support on-prem and private VPC deployments so your data never leaves your boundary, and we can benchmark and fine-tune privately on the Zoneits Lab GPU cluster when a dedicated model is warranted.
On-prem or cloud, which do you recommend?
It depends on your data sensitivity, latency needs, and compliance posture. We deploy in your cloud VPC, fully on-prem, or a hybrid. For regulated data or air-gapped requirements we run open models on the Zoneits Lab GPU cluster, backed by our GPU infrastructure practice; for elastic workloads a managed cloud endpoint is often simpler. We design the split with you.
Which models do you use?
We select per task and benchmark candidates on your own evals rather than defaulting to one vendor. Options include the latest Claude models, other leading hosted APIs, and open-weight models we can fine-tune and host privately on the Zoneits Lab GPU cluster. Model choice is a decision we revisit as your workload and the frontier evolve.
AI Agents & Agentic Tooling

Automate the work.
Keep the control.

Tell us the workflow you want an agent to own. We will scope the data, the tools, and the guardrails, then prove it on your evals before it ever touches production.