# AI & data

> Most AI projects stall between the demo and production, usually on the data underneath. We build both: the pipelines, warehouse and reporting that make your data dependable, and the agents, assistants and models that put it to work.

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Covers: AI agents, Assistants, Forecasting, Data pipelines, Warehousing, Dashboards.

## What the practice covers

- **AI agents**: Agents that work your real systems through scoped credentials, with step limits and a hard stop.
- **Assistants, documents & forecasting**: Assistants on your own knowledge base, document extraction, and forecasts measured against today's baseline.
- **Evaluation, guardrails & MLOps**: Every prompt, model or tool change measured before it ships, and every run traced with its cost.
- **Data pipelines & warehousing**: Your applications, databases and third-party systems feeding one warehouse, with definitions agreed once.
- **Dashboards & real-time analytics**: Reporting built for specific decisions, and real-time queries on ClickHouse where yesterday's number is too late.
- **Data quality & governance**: Automated checks that catch a broken upstream change before it reaches a report or a model.

## How we run an AI and data engagement.

We start from the decision or workflow you want to improve, then build backwards to the data and the model.

1. **Decision & use-case mapping**: We identify the decisions and workflows the business wants to improve, rank them against your data and systems, and agree what success looks like numerically.
2. **Data foundations**: We assess what data exists and how reliable it is, then build the pipelines and warehouse the use case needs, with tests and monitoring from the start.
3. **Build, evaluate & ship**: Working dashboards, agents or models, measured against how your team does it now, then deployed with scoped credentials, approval gates and budgets.
4. **Operate & extend**: We run the platform, add sources as you grow, and tune prompts, tools and models as your data and business change.

## Numbers you trust. AI you can leave switched on.

A dashboard is only useful if people believe it, and an agent that cannot be observed, budgeted or stopped is a liability. We build the parts that make both safe to rely on.

- **Decisions first**: Every metric, model and agent traces back to a decision someone is trying to make, with an estimated cost and return before we start.
- **One definition per metric**: Revenue means the same thing in every report and every prompt, and the definition is documented.
- **Tested and evaluated**: Data quality checks run on every load, and every prompt, model or tool change is scored before it ships.
- **Least privilege, human in the loop**: Each tool gets its own scoped credential and spend cap, and approval gates sit wherever an action is expensive or irreversible.
- **Your data stays yours**: Deployment options that keep sensitive data inside your own cloud account or region.

## Questions and answers

### What does the AI & data practice cover?

The data platform and the AI that runs on it: data pipelines, a warehouse and reporting your team trusts, and AI agents, assistants, document extraction and forecasting models that are evaluated before launch.

### Does Vigesimal Tech build AI agents (agentic AI)?

Yes. We build agents that work your real systems through scoped credentials, with step limits and a hard stop. Each tool gets its own scoped credential and spend cap, and approval gates sit wherever an action is expensive or irreversible.

### Our data is not ready for AI. Where do we start?

With the decision or workflow you want to improve. We assess what data exists and how reliable it is, then build the pipelines and warehouse the use case needs, with tests and monitoring from the start.

### How do you know an AI system works before it goes live?

Every prompt, model or tool change is scored before it ships, and what we build is measured against how your team does the work now. Every run is traced with its cost.

### Where is our data kept?

We offer deployment options that keep sensitive data inside your own cloud account or region.

## Next step

[Scope a use case](https://vigesimal.tech/contact). A 30-minute call, no cost. You leave with our read on what to fix first, whether or not you hire us. We usually reply within one business day.

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