We design, build, and ship production-ready AI agents for your business — from lead qualification and customer support to fleet dispatch and internal ops automation. We use the right mix of custom code and no-code tools (n8n, Make, Zapier) for the best outcome at the best price. Every engagement ends with a deployed system, not a slide deck.
30 minutes. No pitch. You leave with an agent roadmap either way.
AI agent development is the practice of designing, building, and deploying software systems that can reason, plan, use tools, and take actions autonomously to accomplish business goals. Unlike traditional chatbots, AI agents connect to your APIs, databases, and SaaS tools — and execute multi-step workflows with human-in-the-loop approval where needed.
Cognio Labs builds custom AI agents for businesses that need more than an off-the-shelf chatbot. We specialize in multi-agent systems, RAG-grounded knowledge agents, and production-grade deployments on open-source platforms like OpenClaw and Hermes. Most engagements go from kickoff to deployed agent in 4 weeks.
Four categories of AI agents cover ~90% of the workflows where agents deliver real ROI.
24/7 conversational agents that qualify leads, answer product questions, and handle support across web, WhatsApp, Slack, and email.
Agents that automate repetitive back-office work — invoice processing, CRM hygiene, report generation, onboarding flows.
Coordinated agent swarms where specialists hand off to each other — research agents, writing agents, review agents, dispatch agents.
Agents grounded in your docs, tickets, and data — with citations, freshness, and permission filters so they never hallucinate.
We ship production-ready agents, not demos. Every engagement ends with a deployed system, not a slide deck.
Enterprise-grade security is default, not an add-on: prompt-injection defense, tool allowlists, audit trails, credential scoping.
Agents are shaped around your workflows, tools, and data — not a vendor's assumptions. You own the code.
Every agent ships with a success metric agreed up front. We instrument and report on it from day one.
Five stages, week-by-week. No mystery, no surprises.
We diagnose where agents will actually return ROI — and where they won't. You leave with a 1-page shortlist of use cases ranked by impact and feasibility, whether you hire us or not.
We design the agent architecture, pick the right models and frameworks, and define clear success metrics. You approve the scope before a line of code is written.
Our team builds the agent, integrates with your tools (CRM, Slack, databases, APIs), configures memory, guardrails, and human-in-the-loop approvals where needed.
Production deployment on your infrastructure or ours. Prompt-injection defenses, tool-call sandboxing, audit logging, and full observability dashboards.
Weekly optimization calls. We monitor real usage, tune prompts and retrieval, and expand capabilities based on what your users actually do.
We pick the cheapest tool that does the job well — and you can replace any piece of it later. Here's what that means in plain English.
Fast, affordable automations your own team can see, understand, and edit after we hand over.
For complex, high-volume, or deeply integrated systems that outgrow no-code tools.
Agents that run on your own servers — no per-seat fees, nothing a vendor can take away.
We pick the best model for each task and can swap it later — your agent doesn't depend on one AI vendor.
Fixed-fee engagements. No hourly billing. No surprises. You get a fixed-fee proposal within 48 hours of the discovery call.
What this buys in practice: for Emsa, a global education and migration firm, our AI sales agent raised lead-handling capacity by 500% across 8–10 offices. See the case studies →
A single production-ready agent with one integration and deployment.
Multi-agent system with full integrations, guardrails, and observability.
Mission-critical agents for regulated industries with dedicated team.
Everything you'd ask a senior engineer before hiring.
AI agent development is the practice of designing, building, and deploying software systems that can reason, plan, use tools, and take actions autonomously or semi-autonomously to accomplish goals. Unlike traditional chatbots, AI agents connect to your APIs, databases, and tools (CRM, email, Slack, internal systems) and execute multi-step workflows — qualifying leads, processing invoices, dispatching fleets, synthesizing research — with human-in-the-loop approval where needed.
Cognio Labs' AI agent development pricing starts at $8,000 for a focused pilot agent (2–3 weeks), $18,000 for a production-grade multi-agent system (4–6 weeks), and custom pricing for enterprise engagements with dedicated teams. Final cost depends on use case complexity, number of integrations, security requirements, and whether fine-tuning or custom infrastructure is needed. Book a discovery call for a scoped quote — you get a fixed-fee proposal within 48 hours.
Every agent we ship starts in shadow mode: it drafts work, your team approves it, and it only earns autonomy once accuracy is proven on your real data. In production, high-risk actions stay behind human-in-the-loop approval gates, every tool call is logged and auditable, and your team controls a kill switch. Mistakes get caught at the approval gate or in the logs — never silently shipped to a customer.
A focused pilot agent takes 2–3 weeks from kickoff to production. A multi-agent production system takes 4–6 weeks. Enterprise deployments with compliance requirements (SOC2, HIPAA, GDPR) typically run 6–12 weeks. We commit to a production date in week 1 and ship on it.
Both — we're tool-agnostic and pick the right tool for the job. For fast, cost-effective workflow automation we build on no-code platforms like n8n, Make, and Zapier. For complex, high-volume, or deeply integrated systems we write custom-coded agents and RAG pipelines. Most production systems we ship are a hybrid: the best outcome at the best price, not the most expensive build for its own sake.
We pick the right stack for each problem. Our toolkit spans no-code platforms (n8n, Make, Zapier) for workflow automation and full-code frameworks — LangGraph for stateful orchestration, CrewAI for role-based teams, OpenClaw and Hermes for open-source agent platforms, MCP for tool protocols — with models from Anthropic (Claude Opus 4.7, Haiku), OpenAI (GPT-5), and open models via OpenRouter. We're model-agnostic — you're not locked into a single vendor.
Yes. You receive the full source code, infrastructure-as-code, documentation, and deployment pipelines. No license fees, no vendor lock-in. We can host it for you, or you can run it on your own cloud — your choice.
Security is default, not optional. Every agent we ship includes: tool-call allowlists and sandboxing, credential scoping per agent, prompt-injection detection at input and output layers, audit logging of every tool call, rate limits, and human-in-the-loop approval gates for high-risk actions. For regulated industries we map to SOC2, HIPAA, or GDPR requirements.
Yes. We routinely integrate with Salesforce, HubSpot, Zoho, Postgres, MongoDB, Slack, Gmail, Google Calendar, WhatsApp, Telegram, Zapier, internal REST/GraphQL APIs, and legacy systems via custom adapters. If it has an API or a database, we can wire an agent to it.
You do. Agents run on your infrastructure (or a VPC/tenant we set up in your name), and your data never leaves your environment without explicit controls. We do not train models on your data. You can revoke access at any time.
Every engagement includes a support window (14–60 days depending on tier). After that, you can renew with a monthly optimization retainer — weekly calls, prompt tuning based on real usage, metric reviews, and incremental capability expansion — or take it fully in-house with our handoff documentation.
Yes — we are specialists in both. If you need a fully on-prem, open-source agent platform, we deploy OpenClaw or Hermes Agent on your infrastructure, configure the agent swarm, and integrate with your tools. See our dedicated OpenClaw setup and Hermes setup services for fixed-fee engagements.
We'll diagnose your highest-ROI use cases and map out a path from pilot to production — whether you hire us or not.
You own the code and the accounts. Leave anytime and it keeps running.
30 minutes. No pitch. You leave with an agent roadmap either way.