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Principal-led production AI systems firm

AI systems that survivereal production.

TeqEngine builds production agentic AI systems: workflow architecture, evals, MCP/tool integration, secure auth, and the platform layer agents need to operate against real business systems.

Infrastructure behind a #1 App Store product
100M+ messages handled in a single day
AI-native products for venture-backed teams
Regulated platform and diligence leadership
#1
App Store product infrastructure
100M+
Peak-day messages handled
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Platform and diligence leadership

Readiness Engine

Production readiness brief

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Public proof, real stakes

High-stakes systems. Real production scale. Shipped.

#1
App Store product infrastructure
100M+
Peak-day message load handled
AI
Venture-backed product systems
2wk
Production diagnostic entry

Operating stack in production

AWSAnthropicOpenAIMicrosoft AzureNext.jsTypeScriptPostgres

Built with

AWSAnthropicOpenAIGoogle CloudAzure

Competitive Difference

The gap is no longer the model. It is the system around it.

Models keep getting better. The hard part is everything around them — the workflow architecture, eval harnesses, MCP and tool boundaries, auth and observability, and the rollout discipline that lets agents run against real business systems without breaking.

What teams are tired of

Assessments that never turn into working systems

Agent demos without evals, permissions, observability, or rollback

Large-firm delivery models that pitch with seniors and execute with juniors

TeqEngine posture

Built for teams that need the first production system, not a slide describing one.

A principal engineer owns the architecture and delivery path

AI work is treated as product, platform, security, and operations together

The first engagement produces a build decision, not another strategy deck

Operating stack

Workflow architectureMCP / tool integrationEval harnessesAuth and permissioningObservabilityProduction rollout

TeqEngine Method

The Agent Production Harness.

A repeatable operating model for moving agentic AI from promising workflow to production system. It creates the decisions, gates, and technical artifacts your team needs before committing to a build.

Architecture sketch
Risk register
Eval plan
Tool boundary map
30/60/90 roadmap

Use-case fit

Separate durable AI opportunities from demos, search, workflow, and no-build cases.

Tool boundaries

Define what agents can call, when they escalate, and how failures resolve.

Auth and audit

Map permissions, identity context, sensitive data paths, and review surfaces.

Production Agent

Eval harness

Measure correctness, cost, latency, drift, and regression before rollout.

Release gates

Sequence pilots, rollback paths, observability, and human approvals.

Output

A build, buy, kill, or sequence decision with enough architecture detail to move directly into execution.

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Workflow

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Harness

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Platform

The Engagement Ladder

One path from decision to production — enter at the rung that fits.

Most teams start with the Diagnostic and move down the ladder as the work proves out: decide what to build, build it, deploy it behind real rollout discipline, then keep it reliable in production.

  1. 01Decide

    AI Production Readiness Diagnostic

    2-week fixed scope

    A focused review that scores use-case fit, architecture, data, security, evals, and delivery ownership — and ends in a clear go/no-go.

    • Readiness scorecard
    • Build / buy / kill recommendation
    • 30/60/90-day roadmap
    View details
  2. 02Build

    Agent Workflow Buildout

    Scoped build engagement

    Production agent systems with MCP/tool boundaries, auth, evals, observability, and human escalation — engineered to survive real users.

    • Agent architecture
    • Tool and auth model
    • Rollout gates
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  3. 03Deploy

    Deployment / FDE Sprint

    6–10 week sprint

    Senior-builder-led embedment to harden, integrate, test, and ship the system into production behind real rollout discipline — not a slide describing one.

    • Production integration
    • Eval & reliability gates
    • Observability & rollback
    View details
  4. 04Sustain

    Reliability Retainer

    Monthly engagement

    Ongoing governance for teams running AI in production: recurring evals, release gates, incident review, and architecture oversight as the system evolves.

    • Eval & release governance
    • Incident & regression review
    • Roadmap & architecture oversight
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Not sure which rung you’re on?

Start with the Diagnostic. You get a roadmap and an honest, evidence-based recommendation on whether to build, deploy, or wait.

How We Deliver

Enterprise delivery, operator speed

Principal-led architecture, clear governance, and a relentless focus on shipping production-ready systems. The process is built to create decisions, working code, and operational ownership — with senior bench capacity scaled to engagement scope.

Principal-Led

Architecture and ownership stay with the principal. A vetted senior bench scales execution to engagement scope. No junior handoffs, no consultancy theater.

Governance

Weekly exec updates, risk tracking, architecture reviews. Clear milestones and transparent roadmaps.

Quality Assurance

Code reviews, automated testing, CI/CD pipelines. AI-specific evals, red teaming, and telemetry.

Fast Iteration

Ship working software every sprint. Continuous feedback loops and rapid iteration on what matters.

Engineering Artifacts

Tangible deliverables you can inspect, challenge, and build from.

Every engagement produces concrete engineering artifacts — architecture sketches, risk maps, eval plans, and deployment checklists — so your procurement, security, and engineering teams can evaluate the work before a single line of production code is committed.

Typical Diagnostic Outputs

Readiness scorecard, executive memo, architecture sketch, risk map, eval plan, and implementation roadmap.

Before / After Operating Model

Current workflow, AI-assisted target workflow, human review points, system handoffs, and ownership changes.

Production Risk Map

Data, model, retrieval, tool, permission, hallucination, latency, cost, security, and rollout risks.

Deployment Readiness Checklist

Evals, traces, monitoring, rollback, access control, incident paths, support model, and launch gates.

Production readiness questions worth answering early

These questions turn AI ambition into an accountable delivery plan before budget, security review, or launch timing gets locked.

What decision the AI system is allowed to make
Which tools or business systems it can touch
How correctness is measured before and after launch
Where human review is mandatory
How failures are detected, escalated, and rolled back
Who owns the system after go-live
Free Field Manual

The AI Production Readiness Checklist

The same checklist we run inside a paid diagnostic — the questions that decide whether an AI workflow, agent, or AI-coded product is ready for real business use, or one incident away from a problem.

  • The 6 decisions every AI workflow needs before real users touch it
  • Eval, permission, rollback, and observability gates that separate a demo from a system
  • A go / no-go scoring rubric you can run against any AI initiative
  • The failure modes we see most often when AI meets real money and data

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First Engagement

Start with the 2-week AI Delivery Diagnostic

A principal-led engagement to inspect your architecture, agent workflow, evals, auth boundaries, and delivery risk before you commit to a larger build.

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What You Get

  • Readiness scorecard and architecture sketch
  • Eval, auth, observability, and rollback recommendations
  • Build, buy, kill, or sequence decision
  • Premium agentic/MCP architecture track available
2 weeksto a decision-grade plan

We'll map your system, identify risks, and deliver a production-ready plan you can act on immediately.