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Automations that think,
systems that ship.

I'm Gagan — an AI consultant and agentic engineer in Brantford, Ontario. This is an AI shop and nothing else: multi-agent orchestration, the loops and memory underneath them, MCP tool surfaces, and the evals that decide whether any of it ships — for teams in Paris, Brant County, and across Ontario.

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02AI buildsNine builds, one operator

A narrow studio for a wide problem.

Nine AI builds — multi-agent orchestration, agent loop engineering, context engineering with retrieval and memory, MCP tool surfaces, evals and guardrails, in-product copilots, voice agents, document intelligence and AI strategy — shipped end to end by one AI specialist in Brantford, Ontario. Every engagement is custom; these are the shapes they usually take.

S/01
Agentic workflows & orchestration
Multi-agent systems with planner/executor topologies, subagent fan-out, and durable execution underneath. Handoffs are explicit, checkpoints are human, and a crashed process resumes rather than restarts.
LangGraphTemporalInngestClaude Agent SDK
S/02
Agent loop engineering
The harness under a single agent — context compaction, tool-call budgets, stop conditions, and a self-critique pass. This is where agents that spiral get fixed.
Claude Agent SDKOpenAI Agents SDKLangGraphOpenTelemetry
S/03
Context engineering & memory
Hybrid retrieval, GraphRAG over a real knowledge graph, and agent memory that persists between runs. Ranked, reranked, cited, and compacted before it reaches the window.
pgvectorNeo4jCohere RerankLlamaIndex
S/04
MCP servers & tool surfaces
Model Context Protocol servers that expose your internal systems to any agent — typed tool schemas, scoped OAuth, and a bounded surface rather than a database handed to a model.
MCP SDKOAuth 2.1VercelCloudflare
S/05
Evals, tracing & guardrails
Golden sets, LLM-as-judge scoring, and regression gates in CI — plus prompt-injection defence and red-teaming. The difference between shipping on evidence and shipping on vibes.
BraintrustLangfuseLangSmithOpenTelemetry
S/06
In-product copilots
AI inside the product itself — token streaming, generative UI, tool calling against your own API, and structured outputs written straight back to your database.
Vercel AI SDKNext.jsZodPostgres
S/07
Voice & realtime agents
Speech-to-speech agents with turn detection, barge-in, and sub-second response — on the phone or in the product, handing to a human with the transcript attached.
OpenAI RealtimeLiveKitDeepgramTwilio
S/08
Document intelligence
VLM parsing over the documents you actually receive — scans, tables, handwriting — into schema-constrained records with a citation on every field and a confidence gate before anything is trusted.
ClaudeReductoUnstructuredZod
S/09
AI strategy & audits
Readiness audits, build-versus-buy calls, model and data policy, and an eval plan before a quarter is committed. A few hours that often save months.
AuditRoadmapEval planRetainer
03ProcessFour phases · 2–6 weeks typical

How an engagement actually goes.

01 · DISCOVER

Diagnose, not prescribe.

A working session to map every manual step in the workflow. I leave with a list of candidates ranked by time-saved-per-dollar.

Week 1 · 2–3 calls · free
02 · DESIGN

Blueprint on paper.

A node-graph of your target system with every handoff, failure mode, and data contract named. You approve before anything runs.

Week 1–2 · written spec
03 · BUILD

Ship in slices.

Narrow vertical releases every 3–5 days. You see the system working on your data before it's fully finished.

Week 2–4 · daily standup in writing
04 · OPERATE

Own the outcome.

Monitoring, alerts, and iteration after launch. A monthly retainer keeps the system sharp as your business shifts.

Month 2+ · optional retainer
03·FAgentic AI deliveryAgentic delivery workflows

One ticket in. Working software out.

How work actually moves through the studio: specialised agents pick tickets off a kanban queue, build and test inside isolated sandboxes, and a human reviews before anything ships. Three of the workflows, mapped end to end.

delivery · feature.flowPASS / FAIL LOOPS · LIVE
TicketPlanBuildTestReviewShip

Failures never stall the pipeline — every red test loops the work back to the Build Agent until the whole chain is green.

04Selected AI development workRecent · 2026

A handful of recent builds.

Multi-agent systems, retrieval and memory, voice agents and document intelligence — shipped for teams across Ontario and beyond.

case.support.loop
01/03
SaaS · Support2026

A support agent that resolved 62% of tier-1 tickets at a Series B SaaS.

RAG over 40k help-center articles and historical tickets, routed through a Claude agent with a strict escalation policy and deflection scorecard.

62%Auto-resolved · 30-day average
case.pipeline.loop
01/03
Fintech · RevOps2026

Lead enrichment pipeline that tripled SDR throughput.

Clay + GPT-4 + HubSpot. Inbound forms scored, researched, and booked in under 90 seconds — no SDR involvement.

3.4×Meetings booked per SDR
case.grid.loop
01/02
DTC · Content2026

A content system producing 120 localized assets per week.

Structured generation with brand-voice guardrails, human review queue, and Figma handoff. Replaced a four-person content pod.

18hSaved per week · ops team
case.doc.loop
01/02
Legal · Internal2026

Contract triage with cited reasoning.

Ingest any PDF, extract obligations, flag risk clauses against a firm-specific playbook. Citations back to the source paragraph.

92%Accuracy vs. senior associate
case.ops.loop
01/03
Marketplace · Ops2026

Operations co-pilot for a 20-person ops team.

A Slack-native agent with access to 11 internal tools. Fuzzy requests resolve into structured actions with a confirmation step.

$410kAnnualized labor saved
case.agent.loop
01/02
Logistics · Ops2026

Multi-agent exception handling across a 40k-shipment month.

A planner fans each stuck shipment out to subagents for carrier, customs and inventory, then merges their findings into one action. Durable execution means a mid-run deploy resumes instead of restarting.

83%Exceptions cleared without a human
case.voice.loop
01/02
Clinic · Intake2026

A speech-to-speech intake agent that answers after hours.

Turn detection and barge-in tuned on the clinic's own recordings, booking straight into the practice system. Low confidence or anything clinical transfers to a person with the transcript attached.

640msMedian response · caller to agent
04·VSee it work30-sec loop · no narration

A live workflow, start to finish.

A real agent handling an inbound lead — trigger fires, agent reasons, actions dispatch to HubSpot, Notion, and Linear. The kind of thing that used to take a person eleven minutes.

studio.buildwithgagan.com / workflow / inbound-leads LIVE
InboxLeadsWorkflowsLogsSettingsPROCESSED · TODAY0▲ +12.4% vs yday01 · TRIGGERInbound emailfrom: alex@acme.co02 · AGENTReasoningHubSpotACTION+ new dealNotionACTION→ CRM noteLinearACTIONticket createdEXECUTION · 1.2sTrigger received
◉ 01 · Trigger
◉ 02 · Reason
◉ 03 · Dispatch
◉ 04 · Observe
05 — By the numbersTrailing 24 months · aggregated across clients

AI automation results, by the numbers

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Systems shipped
0k
Hours saved · client side
$0.0M
Labor value automated
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Products shipped · career total
06What clients sayThree of the nicer ones

Words from people I ship for.

I've worked closely with Gagan, and his ability to turn complex AI concepts into real, working products is exceptional. He doesn't just understand the tech — he knows how to execute at scale.
RK
Rajwinder KaurOperations Manager
Gagan's technical expertise and leadership are truly exceptional. His deep knowledge of AI systems and product engineering, combined with his ability to manage complex projects, makes him a standout CTO.
MA
Majdi AlluluSportsTech
I'm deeply impressed with Gagan and his team's expertise and dedication they showed working on our project. With their help and support, I could finally see my vision turn into reality.
DM
Dino MendozaClient
07About the AI specialistA studio of one

Who builds it.

Gagan Deep Singh — an AI consultant and agentic engineer based in Brantford, Ontario, with fourteen years of engineering leadership behind the studio.

I spent fourteen years scaling engineering teams before I noticed most of the interesting engineering was happening just outside the product — in the seams between tools, inboxes, and spreadsheets where work actually got done.

Buildwithgagan is a deliberately small studio. One person, end-to-end, every engagement. No account managers, no junior handoffs, no "creative director" layer between you and the work. The person on the first call is the person writing the code and the person answering Slack at 11pm when something needs a patch.

The studio is currently full, so new work joins a waitlist rather than a start date. That has always been the shape of it — I turn down more than I take, usually because the problem is better solved by a process change than by software, or because a bigger shop is genuinely a better fit. I'll tell you which one you are on the first call, waitlist or not.

This is an AI shop and nothing else. Not a general agency with an AI page — the whole practice is agent orchestration, the loops underneath them, retrieval and memory, MCP tool surfaces, and the evals that decide whether any of it is allowed to ship. Narrowing that far means the second time I see your problem is usually the fifth or sixth time I have seen it.

BASED
Brantford & Paris, Ontario · working globally
STACK
TypeScript · Python · Postgres · the usual AI suspects
ALSO SHIP
MCP servers, eval harnesses, agent infrastructure
BEFORE THIS
14 years leading engineering teams
FAVOURITE TOOL
A well-named webhook
WILL NOT BUILD
Cold-outbound spam, deepfake anything
08AI consulting FAQThe questions I get on every first call

Common questions.

Fixed-scope sprints (4–12 weeks) or a monthly retainer (hours/week). Every engagement starts with a 1-week Discovery phase so we understand your problem before writing code.

Mostly: stop you building the wrong thing. The first week is spent mapping where work actually leaks — the copy-paste between tools, the inbox someone triages by hand, the report rebuilt every Monday. Then we automate the two or three that pay for the engagement, and leave the rest alone. Half the value is knowing what not to build.

Automation follows a path you drew: when this happens, do that. Agentic AI decides the path at runtime — it reads the situation, picks tools, checks its own work, and escalates when it isn't sure. Automation is cheaper and more predictable, so most workflows should stay automations. Agents earn their keep when the input is messy enough that no fixed path survives contact with it.

MVP agent or workflow automation: 4–6 weeks. Production-grade multi-agent system: 8–12 weeks. Retainer: ongoing. You see working software every Friday.

End-to-end. Strategy, architecture, the code, the evals, the deployment, and the pager when it breaks. Advisory-only engagements exist — audits and roadmaps — but they're the exception. Most clients want the person who drew the diagram to be the person who ships it.

Yes — I'm based in Brantford and regularly work with teams in Paris, Brant County, Hamilton, Cambridge, Kitchener-Waterloo, and the GTA. Local engagements can start with an in-person session, which is usually the fastest way to map a workflow. Everything after that runs remotely, same as it does for clients elsewhere in Canada and the US.

Gagan leads every engagement directly — architecture, code review, and client communication. A trusted bench of senior AI engineers joins for build-heavy phases. No offshored junior teams.

You do. All code, prompts, evals, and infrastructure become yours on delivery. No vendor lock-in, no proprietary wrappers, no license fees.

Scope drives price. Every engagement is shaped to outcomes, not hours. After a 30-minute intro call, you get a fixed proposal with clear deliverables, timeline, and cost. No surprises.

Claude, GPT, and open-weight models — picked for the workload, not the brand, and the choice is settled by an eval on your own data rather than a public benchmark. LangGraph and the Claude and OpenAI agent SDKs for orchestration, Temporal or Inngest for durable execution, pgvector and a knowledge graph for retrieval, MCP for tool surfaces, OpenTelemetry traces throughout. Python and TypeScript.

Yes — audit and rescue engagements are roughly 30% of our work. Bring your codebase. We audit, stabilize, and ship what your previous team couldn't.
09ReadsLong-form and field notes

Worth a read.

Essays on agent architecture, plus the shorter notes that usually come first.

EssayAug 2026

One ticket in, one reviewed pull request out

Four flows, twenty-six role agents and exactly one human stop per run. The delivery machine my work goes through end to end — how a ticket gets classified, isolated in a sandbox, specified, built, reviewed by a panel that re-runs in full after every repair, and released only once a person says yes.

Read the essay
AgentsDeliveryHarness
EssayAug 2026

Testing an agent's control flow without a model

Most agent test suites pay a model to answer a question the model has no part in: does the next node run, is that gate reachable, does the retry budget actually decrement. Separate transport from judgement and those checks run in seconds, offline, for nothing.

Read the essay
AgentsTestingHarness
EssayAug 2026

What a bounded loop actually costs

A timeout is not a budget. Budgets that work are enforced on every state write, discount halted time, and hand the decision at the ceiling to something that can read the run — because 'one assertion away' and 'going in circles' both present as a spent budget.

Read the essay
AgentsLoopsCost
EssayAug 2026

AI code review, and the agent I built to gate every merge

Generating code got cheap; reading it did not. The bottleneck moved from writing to reviewing — so here is the two-tier review agent I run on my own repos: a fast local gate before the commit lands, a deeper agentic pass on the pull request, and the evals that keep both honest.

Read the essay
Code reviewAgentsCI/CD
10Start a projectTypical reply · under 24h

Let's build something.

Send a short note about what you're trying to automate, and I'll reply within a day with a 30-minute call or a fixed-price audit proposal — whichever fits.

Free 30-minute audit for qualified companies
Fixed-price quote after the first call — no estimate drift
NDAs, DPAs, and VPC-only builds available on request
Currently taking 2 new projects this quarter

Tell me about the project

A few sentences is plenty — I'll ask the rest on the call.