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Agent archetypes

The agents we ship most often.

Nine archetypes that cover ~80% of our engagements. Click any for the deep dive — inputs, outputs, metrics, eval seed cases, cost envelope, and timeline.

Inbound qualification agent

Engages every inbound lead in 60s, runs the discovery flow a good SDR would, books AEs only when they should be talking.

Responsibilities

  • Multi-channel engagement (web chat, email reply, SMS)
  • Structured qualification (pain, timeline, authority, budget signal)
  • Calendar booking for qualified leads
  • Nurture routing for not-yet-ready leads

Building blocks

  • LangGraph for branching qualification flow
  • Calendar integration (Cal.com / Calendly)
  • CRM write-back (HubSpot / Salesforce)
  • Eval suite for qualification quality

Guardrails

  • Never quote pricing — always defer to the AE
  • Escalate to a human SDR if the lead is angry or expresses urgency
  • Log every conversation with intent classification

Support deflection agent

Deflects 40-70% of tier-1 tickets with citation-required RAG over docs + refusal patterns on the edge cases.

Responsibilities

  • Answer documented questions with citations
  • Triage and classify inbound for engineering escalation
  • Capture diagnostic context (logs, screenshots, network traces)
  • Hand off to humans with full conversation context

Building blocks

  • Hybrid search (BM25 + vector)
  • Reranking (Cohere Rerank v3)
  • Citation-required prompting
  • Eval suite for hallucination + refusal correctness

Guardrails

  • Refuse to make policy promises — defer to humans
  • Refuse low-confidence answers and route to a human
  • Surface contradictions between sources rather than picking one

Multi-agent ops monitor

Mirror the org chart. One agent per role you'd hire if you had infinite humans. Coordinating through a shared event bus.

Responsibilities

  • Watch production / maintenance / quality / inventory / energy
  • Generate shift handoff briefings
  • Route alerts to the right human via WhatsApp + dashboard
  • Coordinate across agents on cross-cutting incidents

Building blocks

  • LangGraph orchestration per agent
  • Shared Postgres event bus
  • Kafka stream from SCADA / IoT / ERP
  • Edge gateway for on-prem reasoning

Guardrails

  • No agent takes physical action — humans always pull the trigger
  • Every alert tied to source data with audit trail
  • Confidence thresholds tune per agent and machine class

Document extraction agent

Pull structured fields from invoices, BOLs, contracts, QC reports. Exception-only human review.

Responsibilities

  • OCR + vision extraction from PDFs and scanned docs
  • Validate extracted fields against business rules
  • Route confidence-below-threshold to a human reviewer
  • Post clean records to downstream systems

Building blocks

  • Vision LLM for layout-rich docs
  • Structured-output prompting with explicit confidence scores
  • Business-rule validation layer
  • Eval suite with held-out historical docs

Guardrails

  • Never normalize person names without explicit approval
  • Confidence < 0.7 means human review, no exceptions
  • Preserve raw extracted strings for audit

Voice agent

Replaces IVR menus with a real conversation. Inbound + outbound. Routes to humans cleanly when needed.

Responsibilities

  • Greet and qualify in under 30 seconds
  • Answer common questions in 1-2 short turns
  • Route to humans on emotional signals or complexity
  • Log every call with summary + sentiment

Building blocks

  • Vapi / Retell for low-latency streaming
  • Twilio for telephony
  • RAG over knowledge base + caller history
  • Real-time sentiment detection

Guardrails

  • Never pretend to be human
  • Never make commitments about pricing, refunds, or SLAs
  • If silence > 5s, prompt 'still there?'

ERP query + alert agent

Natural-language query over your ERP. Anomaly detection on cost, stock, receivables. Audit-traceable.

Responsibilities

  • Translate plain-English questions into ERP API calls
  • Background anomaly detection (cost drift, stock ageing)
  • Suggestion engine with approve / reject workflow
  • Audit trail tying every response to source records

Building blocks

  • LangGraph with explicit tool definitions per ERP module
  • MCP server architecture for tool composability
  • Prompt caching for the schema context
  • Approval workflow for cost suggestions

Guardrails

  • Never auto-post to the ledger — always route to a named approver
  • Cite source records on every response
  • Refuse cross-tenant questions in multi-tenant deployments

KYC + onboarding agent

Document extraction + sanctions screening + risk scoring. Exception-only review. Audit log on every decision.

Responsibilities

  • Extract structured fields from KYC documents
  • Sanctions and PEP screening across global lists
  • Risk scoring with model card + reasoning trace
  • Route exceptions to compliance analysts

Building blocks

  • Vision LLM for ID + document parsing
  • Sanctions API integration
  • LightGBM for risk scoring
  • Approval workflow with named approver chain

Guardrails

  • Never auto-approve high-risk cases — always require human review
  • Log every decision with model version + reasoning + approver
  • Encrypt PII in transit and at rest, retention per jurisdiction

Vision QC agent

YOLO + vision-LLM hybrid for production-line defect detection. Routes uncertain cases to the QC engineer.

Responsibilities

  • Real-time defect detection on production lines
  • Active learning loop — uncertain cases to humans
  • Aggregate defect-pattern reporting
  • Integration with line-stop authority signals

Building blocks

  • YOLOv10 for fast common-defect detection
  • Vision LLM for novel / ambiguous defects
  • Active-learning sampling for the uncertain bucket
  • Edge gateway for low-latency inference

Guardrails

  • Never auto-stop the line without supervisor confirmation
  • Surface confidence per detection
  • Retrain weekly with the active-learning sample

Compliance evidence agent

Quarterly evidence collection for SOC 2 / ISO 27001 audits. Pulls, formats, and uploads to your auditor's template.

Responsibilities

  • Pull access reviews, change tickets, training records from source systems
  • Format per auditor's template
  • Upload to evidence platform (Vanta / Drata) or Drive
  • Notify the GRC lead on anomalies

Building blocks

  • n8n orchestration
  • API integrations to identity, ticketing, HR, training systems
  • Structured-output prompting for normalization
  • Eval suite that replays past audit cycles

Guardrails

  • Never modify source-of-truth records
  • Always preserve raw evidence alongside formatted output
  • Surface gaps in evidence collection rather than fabricating

Want one of these for your stack?

Pick the archetype that's closest, book a call, and we'll scope the v1.