An agent you do not account for is an agent you find out about later.
Codiste puts AI agents into production for venture studios, for funds, and for the founders sitting inside their portfolios. Every call an agent makes has a cost, a duration and an owner. We write all three down while the system is being built, not after somebody queries the bill.
The bill is the first honest report most teams get.
A pilot looks cheap because almost nobody is using it. Traffic arrives, retries stack up, one prompt quietly doubles in length, and the total moves without a single alert firing. By the time the number is visible the architecture is already set.
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Retries
A failed call is not free. It is charged again, and the second attempt is usually the longer one.
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Context drift
Prompts grow as edge cases are patched into them. Nothing looks wrong until the per-call cost is compared against last month.
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Unowned calls
When no name sits against a line, no one is accountable for it, and it survives every review by being invisible.
no owner
Four figures, and each one is countable.
These are entries, not estimates. Each is a number we can point at a system for.
Three things we report against, in that order.
Every engagement closes with the same three lines, so the comparison holds from one quarter to the next.
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Speed
Weeks are the unit of account here. Our quickest voice build was handling live requests on its eighteenth day.
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Leverage
Work that used to need a person on every case now needs a person on the exceptions. That difference is what the line is for.
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Risk
Hallucination rate, escalation rate and the evidence trail behind both, recorded rather than described.
recorded
Three competencies, all accounted for the same way.
They are billed, reviewed and reported against one standard, so no strand of the work escapes the record.
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Artificial Intelligence
Architecture, guardrails and observability drawn up together, so the reliability is part of the build rather than a repair posted later.
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Blockchain Innovation
Decentralised applications built to scale, on secure and transparent ledgers that keep data intact across enterprise ecosystems. Supply chain transparency. Tokenisation.
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Machine Learning
Forecasting through to hyper-personalisation, turning a stored archive into something that earns its keep. Predictive analytics. Computer vision.
from archive
Four stages, each one posting something you can check.
No stage closes on a verbal update. Each leaves an entry behind it that the next stage is measured against.
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Discover
We sit with the product and the constraints until the thing worth automating is obvious, and write down what it must never do alone.
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Prototype
A narrow path built end to end, against real data rather than a rehearsed script, so the first cost figures are honest ones.
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Launch
Released to a small share of live traffic with the checks, the records and the escalation path already standing.
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Iterate
The numbers from real use decide what changes next, and the entry from the previous round is what they are read against.
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Four agents carrying real traffic today.
Each of these has a cost per call, a record of what it did, and somebody whose name sits against it.
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Propizone CRM Voice AI
Enquiries arriving near midnight used to wait in a queue until morning. The line now answers in eight seconds and qualifies the caller before the moment passes.
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CandiPro ATS Voice AI
A shortlist that would have cost five hundred phone calls. The agent dials each one, puts the hiring manager's questions to them, and hands back a ranked list.
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Neo-Bank Voice AI
A US neo-bank routes account questions to a voice line that can also move money, with a confirmation step standing in the path.
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ReachOut Voice AI
ReachOut dials back within seconds, which is the whole difference between reaching somebody and leaving a message.
seconds
One arrangement, applied across every company you back.
Rates, priority access and delivery terms are settled once and then hold everywhere you have money in. Founders skip the vendor search and arrive at a first call already briefed.
- FinTech
- RegTech
- PropTech
- MarTech
- SaaS
- AdTech
- SportsTech
Data residency, PII handling, audit trails and explainability are fixed in the architecture, so a review meets a system that already complies. Eight frameworks, with the evidence filed before anybody asks for it.
- SOC 2
- ISO 27001
- GDPR
- HIPAA
- EU AI Act
- FINRA
- PCI DSS
- CCPA
What a fund gets from work that is written down.
Four reasons the introduction gets made a second time.
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Studio velocity
This bench has carried production systems already. Nobody here is learning on your money.
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Cross-stack fluency
Voice, LLM, agentic, RAG, edge, and the legacy box nobody wants to open. A portfolio never sits on one stack.
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Reliability as discipline
Checks, records and hallucination control are wired in at the start, not panelled on the week before launch.
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Investor-grade delivery
A round, a runway and a reputation are all exposed. We build with that in view instead of hoping it stays out of frame.
on the line
Tell us which line you cannot account for.
Describe the agent, the system it sits inside, and the number that does not add up. An engineer writes back with a route, a rough effort, and the first thing worth measuring.
Thank you, that is entered.
An engineer has it from here.