Your team is spending hours on work that should take minutes.
Cairn Agents is an AI consulting practice for small and mid-sized companies in regulated industries. We work out what to build, design the system around your rules, and build it with you.
How it runs
Most AI work stalls before it ships
Not because the models are not good enough. Because nobody decided what the system was supposed to do, who is allowed to touch what, and how anyone would know it worked.
Tools, not a system
Somebody bought a licence, somebody else wrote a prompt, and the work still lands in the same inbox. There is no design underneath it, so there is nothing to improve.
Rules nobody wrote down
Your obligations are real and specific, and the people picking tools are not the people who own them. The safe answer becomes no, and the pilot never leaves the pilot.
Advice that stops at the deck
The strategy arrives as a document. Nobody in the room has shipped the thing it describes, so the estimate is a guess and the handoff is yours to figure out.
What we do
Three pieces of work. They run in that order, and each one is useful on its own.
Assessment
We map the work your team actually does, rank it by what an agent could carry and what that saves, and say plainly which parts we would not automate. You leave with a roadmap you own.
Starts at $3K, credited toward the build.
System design
Data sources, the compliance boundary, what the agent may read and what it may never write, the review step, the audit trail. The architecture is the deliverable, and it is written for the people who have to sign it off.
Build and run
We build it against your real tools, keep it read-only where read-only is the honest answer, and hand over the source, the runbook and the documentation. You own everything we build.
How an engagement runs
One line, start to finish. Adapted from the delivery pipeline we run on every project.
Discovery
A working session on the actual workflows, the constraints and the compliance boundary.
Architecture
Data sources, permissions, where the human sits in the loop, what gets logged.
Build and integrate
Guardrails first, scoped access, test data, then the integrations against your tools.
Compliance and sign-off
The framework for your industry, documented, in front of whoever has to approve it.
Deploy
Staging, smoke test, a small live slice, then the rest of it.
Handoff
Source, infrastructure, runbook, monitoring and docs. The system is yours to run.
Proof of practice
We are practitioners, not advisors: the same people who write the architecture write the code. The work is vendor-neutral, because we are not a reseller for anyone, and it is built inside the rules your industry already runs on. Where the honest answer is that an agent should only read and never write, that is what we build.
Where we work
- Healthcare
- Legal
- Finance
- Real estate
- E-commerce
- Education