AI AGENT DEVELOPMENT

Custom AI agents that do real work.

AI agents, chatbots and LLM features that answer from your own data, take actions in your systems, and hand over to a person when they should.

Outcome
An agent your team trusts.
Duration
3 to 5 weeks
From
$9,800
Pricing
Fixed quote · USD

— In short

SolvSpot is an AI agent development company that designs and builds custom AI agents, AI chatbots and LLM-powered features for businesses and product teams. Agents are grounded in your own documents and data using retrieval (RAG), connected safely to your CRM, email, calendar and internal APIs, and tested against an evaluation set before launch. Builds take three to five weeks and start from $9,800, including a 30-day fix window.

#What an AI agent can take off your plate

An AI agent is software that works towards a goal: it reads the request, finds what it needs, takes the steps you allow, and asks a person when it should. A few common jobs:

  • Customer support agent. Answers from your help center and order data, resolves routine requests, and passes the rest to your team with a summary.
  • Internal knowledge assistant. Staff ask a question in Slack or Teams and get an answer from your policies, manuals or contracts, with the source attached.
  • Sales assistant. Researches a prospect, updates the CRM after a call, drafts the follow-up and books the next meeting.
  • Operations agent. Watches a queue, such as orders, claims or applications, handles the standard cases and escalates the exceptions.
  • In-product copilot. Helps your own users get things done inside your software.

#Agent, chatbot or automation: which do you need?

These overlap, and the names are used loosely. Here is the practical difference.

ApproachBest whenExample
AutomationThe steps are the same every timeNew invoice arrives, data is extracted and entered
ChatbotPeople need answers from your content"What is our returns policy for international orders?"
AgentThe steps vary and actions are needed"Move my delivery to Friday and let the customer know"

If your task is closer to the first row, AI automation is simpler and costs less. We will tell you if that is the case.

#How we build agents you can trust

Anyone can connect a model to a chat window in an afternoon. AI agent development services earn their fee in the parts that make an agent dependable.

  • Grounded in your data. The agent answers from your documents and records and shows its sources. It is built to say "I don't know" when the answer is not there.
  • Tools with permissions. Each action is a defined tool with its own rules about who can use it and when approval is required.
  • Guardrails. Checks on what goes in and what comes out, covering off-topic requests, sensitive data and unsupported claims.
  • Evaluation. We collect real examples with the answers you would expect, and run them before every change. You see a score, not a feeling.
  • Observability. Every conversation and action is logged, with cost, so problems can be found and fixed quickly.
  • A way out. The agent hands over to a person smoothly, with the conversation so far attached.

#How the build runs

  • Week 1: design. We define the job, the boundaries, the tools and the handover rules, and gather the evaluation examples.
  • Weeks 2 to 3: build. Knowledge base, tools and the agent itself. You can try it from the end of week two.
  • Week 4: harden. Guardrails, evaluation runs, logging and the cost dashboard. We tune against the examples until the results are where they need to be.
  • Week 5: launch. Rollout to your channel, usually to a small group first, then handover and documentation.

Simpler agents finish in three weeks. You get a demo every week throughout.

#LLM and RAG development for product teams

If you are adding AI to your own product, we can work as an extension of your engineering team. Typical work includes retrieval over customer data with proper tenant isolation, streaming chat interfaces, structured extraction, summarization and evaluation pipelines that run in CI. We work in your repository and your stack, and leave you with code your team can maintain.

Building a new AI product from the ground up? That is MVP development, where the agent is part of a complete product.

#Where to start

If you know the job you want an agent to do, book a call and we will tell you what it involves. If you are still working out where an agent would help most, the AI Opportunity Audit is a one-week way to find out.

#Guides for choosing and scoping an agent

If you are still deciding what an agent should do, these plain-language guides may help.

— Stack we use

LangGraphVercel AI SDKTypeScript / NodePythonOpenAIAnthropicOpen models (Llama, Mistral)Postgres + pgvectorModel Context Protocol (MCP)Next.js

— What's included

  • Agent design: the job, the boundaries, and when it hands over to a person
  • Knowledge base over your documents and data (RAG), with sources cited
  • Tool use: permissioned actions in your CRM, email, calendar or internal APIs
  • Guardrails: input and output checks, approval steps for sensitive actions
  • An evaluation set of real examples, run before every change
  • Conversation logs plus a usage and cost dashboard
  • Deployment to your channel: web chat, Slack, Teams, email or your product
  • Documentation, handover and a 30-day fix window

— Not included

  • Training or fine-tuning foundation models (rarely needed, and we will say if it is)
  • Voice and telephony agents, which we scope separately
  • AI model usage and hosting fees

— Pricing

A fixed price, before we start.

Starts from

$9,800

3 to 5 weeks

A custom agent starts from $9,800 for one well-defined job, with a knowledge base and a small set of tools. Your proposal gives one fixed price for your scope before work begins. AI model usage and hosting are billed by the providers, and we estimate both up front.

What moves the price

  • How many systems the agent can read from and act on
  • The size and condition of your knowledge sources
  • Channels: web chat, Slack, Teams, email or inside your product
  • How strict the accuracy and review requirements are
  • User permissions, or serving many customer accounts

Prefer a smaller first step?

Start with the AI Opportunity Audit.

A one-week review of how your team works today. You get a ranked list of automation and AI opportunities with estimated hours saved, cost and payback for each.

$1,500 · one week

— Common questions

Everything we get asked, answered.

  • What is an AI agent, and how is it different from a chatbot?

    A chatbot answers questions. An AI agent can also do things: look up an order, update a record, book a meeting, draft and send a reply. It works towards a goal in several steps, using the tools you allow. Many projects need something in between, which is why we design the job first and choose the approach second.

  • What does an AI agent development company actually do?

    We design what the agent is responsible for, connect it to your data and systems, build the safety checks around it, test it against real examples and deploy it where your users are. The AI model is the easy part. Most of the work is making the agent accurate, safe and observable.

  • What is RAG, and do we need it?

    RAG stands for retrieval-augmented generation. Before answering, the agent looks up the relevant passages in your own documents and answers from those, with the source attached. If answers need to reflect your policies, products or records rather than general knowledge, you need it. Our RAG development services cover preparing the content, indexing it and measuring answer quality.

  • How do you stop an agent from making things up?

    Several layers. The agent answers from your sources and cites them. It is instructed and tested to say it does not know rather than guess. Output checks catch answers that are not supported by the sources. And an evaluation set of real questions runs before every change, so quality is measured rather than assumed.

  • Can an agent take actions on its own?

    Yes, within limits you set. Each tool has its own permissions. Low-risk actions such as looking up a record can run automatically. Sensitive ones such as issuing a refund or sending an external email can require a person to approve. Every action is logged.

  • Which AI model do you use?

    Whichever suits the job. We build with OpenAI, Anthropic and open models, and often combine them: a smaller model for routine steps and a more capable one for hard decisions. The model sits behind an interface, so you can switch later without a rebuild.

  • Can you add AI features to our existing product?

    Yes. Our LLM development services for product teams cover in-app assistants, search over customer data, summarization, classification and content generation. We work in your codebase and follow your review process, or deliver a separate service with a clean API.

  • What does an agent cost to run?

    It depends on volume and the models used. You get an estimate based on your expected usage before we start, and the dashboard shows actual cost per conversation after launch. We set spending limits with alerts so there are no surprises.

— Ready

Tell us what you're working on.

A free 20-minute call. You'll leave with a clear next step, and a written fixed-price proposal follows within a few days.

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