Our process.
Same operator advises and ships.
Four gates between idea and production. Every operational agent we ship moves through them in this order. Reverse them and the project stalls.
The process YNDR runs on every engagement, from a single agent for a mid-market operator to a portfolio-wide rollout for a PE firm. The same operator who advises is the one whose hands are in the codebase. No handoff to a separate vendor. No drift between the deck and the running system.
Strategy. Build. Security.
Governance.
Each gate is a decision point with its own deliverables and its own exit criteria. We do not move forward until the gate is cleared. Skipping is what creates the agent that demos well and fails the regulator.
Strategy
Decide what AI actually does for you.
Which workflows pay back fastest. Build vs. buy. Vendor choice. The success metric your CFO will sign. Before a single agent ships.
Build
Design the agent, the handbook, and the human SOP.
Tool inventory, escalation rules, tone, eval set, HITL gates. Each agent ships with a handbook it follows and an ops manual your team uses to supervise it.
Security
Defenses for the systems your business runs on.
Prompt-injection mitigation, lethal-trifecta splits, RAG access controls, shadow-AI detection, agent action sandboxing, API-key hygiene.
Governance
Rules your agents and your people both follow.
Agent SOPs, model-use policies, data classification, audit trails, kill switches. Mapped to EU AI Act, NIST AI RMF, and ISO 42001.
A working rhythm, not a kickoff deck.
The four gates set the direction. The cadence is what keeps the engagement honest. Weekly with the operator. Monthly with the board. Quarterly across the portfolio. Predictable enough that your team plans around it.
Weekly check-ins.
Thirty to sixty minutes with the operator on the ground. What shipped. What blocked. What changed about the agent's behavior in production this week. Async between sessions on Slack or whatever channel your team already lives in.
Monthly board updates.
A written brief for the board or operating partner. The metric the CFO signed against the metric the agent actually moved. Risk register updates. Vendor decisions made and deferred. The next thirty days, on one page.
Quarterly review.
Portfolio-wide for PE engagements. The four gates re-walked. What is mature. What is drifting. The agent inventory, the security posture, the governance map against EU AI Act, NIST AI RMF, and ISO 42001.
The artifacts are part of the deliverable, not an afterthought. Every agent ships with a handbook it follows and an ops manual your team uses to supervise it. Long-form briefs live in our artifacts library . Start with the 90-day plan for portco CAIOs or what ships with every agent.
Tell us what you're trying to ship.
Thirty minutes. No pitch deck. We walk the four gates against your actual workflows, name the agents that pay back fastest, and tell you honestly whether we are the right team for what you're trying to do. If we are not, we will tell you who is.