How Hoplo builds vertical AI agents
We use the forward-deployed model: our engineers embed inside your departments, learn how the work really flows, and ship autonomous agents that run it, grounded in your data, under your control.
The forward-deployed model
Most enterprise AI stalls in pilots because generic tools don't know your business. We take the opposite approach: we put engineers inside the department that owns the problem, so the agent we build is shaped by how the work actually happens.
A forward-deployed engineer (FDE) is a builder who sits with your team, not a consultant who writes slides. They learn the process, find where an agent creates real leverage, and ship it into production.
Our FDEs embed with your department for the long run and build autonomous AI agents around the real work of your team.
Embed & map
We start inside one department. Our engineers sit with the people doing the work, follow the real flow of a task end to end, and map where time is lost, where decisions stall and where data is scattered.
The output isn't a report, it's a shortlist of jobs an agent can own, ranked by leverage and feasibility.
- How the work actually flows, not how the org chart says it does
- Which systems and data the task touches
- Where a human decision is essential, and where it isn't
Build the agent
We build a vertical agent that does one job end to end, wired into the tools and data you already use. Every answer is grounded in your own sources, with citations, never generic model output.
Retrieval over your documents and systems keeps the agent accurate and auditable, the same foundation behind Amaril and DocZoom.
We ship in weeks, not quarters: a narrow agent in production beats a broad roadmap on a slide.
Run under your control
The agent works autonomously on the repetitive load, with human approval on the decisions that matter. Your systems, your data, your rules, with audit trails and guardrails so autonomy never means losing control.
You decide which actions run automatically and which need a human sign-off. Nothing ships without your control.
Where we deploy
We build vertical agents for the functions where AI creates the most leverage, one partner across your operations.
- Finance & document intelligence, read, reconcile and reason over financial documents
- Legal & compliance, on-premise document AI that keeps secrecy and GDPR intact
- Marketing & communication, draft, personalise and run campaigns and content
- Customer operations, triage, answer and act across your channels
- Data & knowledge, turn scattered documents into answers teams can trust
Getting started
Bring us a department's bottleneck. We'll embed a small team, scope the highest-leverage agent and ship it, then expand from there.
Tell us where the work is stuck and we'll show you what an agent can own.