faq

Questions about vertical AI agents and production deployment.

deployed.engineering builds production-ready vertical AI agents for industry-specific workflows, integrations, security boundaries, and ongoing operational improvement.

Company

What is deployed.engineering?

deployed.engineering is a forward deployed engineering company that builds production-ready vertical AI agents for specific industries and operational workflows. The team maps customer operations, connects tools, deploys agents, and keeps improving them after launch.

What does deployed.engineering build?

deployed.engineering builds custom vertical AI agents, deployment infrastructure, workflow automation, and product spinouts. Current focus areas include real estate brokerage operations, security staff management, hosted agents, messaging channels, and secure production agent runtime.

Who is deployed.engineering for?

deployed.engineering is for founders, startups, and operating teams that need AI agents to execute real business workflows. It is best suited for teams with repeatable operational work, tool handoffs, domain-specific context, and a need for production ownership.

Approach

What is a vertical AI agent?

A vertical AI agent is an AI system built for a specific industry, role, or workflow instead of a general chat use case. deployed.engineering designs vertical agents around customer data, domain rules, integrations, permissions, and operational feedback loops.

What is CompanyOS?

CompanyOS is deployed.engineering's operating-layer framing for production vertical AI agents. It treats the model as one layer inside a system of workflow truth, domain memory, tool access, policies, approvals, feedback loops, and production ownership.

How does deployed.engineering build vertical AI agents?

deployed.engineering starts by mapping the workflow with the operators who run it, then designs the agent, connects the required tools, deploys it into production, and iterates based on real usage. The engagement is closer to forward deployed engineering than a handoff-only software project.

How is deployed.engineering different from a generic AI chatbot agency?

deployed.engineering focuses on production vertical agents that execute operational workflows, not generic chatbot demos. The work includes domain modeling, integrations, deployment, security boundaries, runtime reliability, and ongoing improvement after the agent is live.

Does deployed.engineering use frontier AI models?

Yes. deployed.engineering routes agent work across frontier model stacks while keeping customers insulated from model churn. The model is treated as one layer of the system, alongside workflow context, tools, security, and deployment infrastructure.

Use cases

Can deployed.engineering build an AI agent for real estate brokers?

Yes. deployed.engineering is developing a Real Estate Broker Agent for lead response, listing context, buyer qualification, follow-up, and deal-room coordination. The agent is designed around brokerage operations rather than generic sales automation.

Can deployed.engineering build an AI agent for security operations?

Yes. deployed.engineering is developing a Security Staff Management Agent for guard scheduling, incident capture, site instructions, escalation routing, and compliance-ready operational memory. The agent is designed for security staff management workflows.

Can deployed.engineering automate internal operations?

Yes. deployed.engineering can build AI agents for internal operations where work depends on context, exceptions, permissions, handoffs, and tool coordination. Strong fits include customer operations, research, support, sales follow-up, back-office workflows, and field operations.

Security

Is deployed.engineering secure for production AI agents?

deployed.engineering designs production agent deployments around isolated runtimes, encrypted secrets, scoped access, separated state, and operational review. Security controls are mapped to each customer workflow before production rollout.

How does deployed.engineering isolate agent deployments?

deployed.engineering designs each production deployment around a separate runtime boundary, with storage and database boundaries instead of a shared namespace. The goal is to keep credentials, state, and operational memory separated per deployment.

How does deployed.engineering handle secrets?

deployed.engineering encrypts API keys, bot tokens, and integration credentials before storage and only decrypts them for deployment or runtime operations where the credential is needed. Secret handling is part of the deployment review.

Engagement

How do I get started with deployed.engineering?

The first step is to book a meeting and bring one hard workflow that would be valuable to automate. deployed.engineering will map the operation, identify integrations and security boundaries, and define the first production agent deployment path.

Does deployed.engineering stay involved after launch?

Yes. deployed.engineering stays involved through deployment, feedback, integrations, reliability work, and iteration. The operating model is designed for production ownership rather than a prototype-only handoff.

start with one workflow

Bring the operational workflow you want an agent to own.

The first step is a working session to map the process, integrations, security constraints, and production deployment path.