Agent Loop Foundry.
A dark open-plan office at night; in the one lamp-lit cubicle, a worn industrial robot works hunched over the papers.

You have an
AI process
problem.

Every company can buy the same frontier models. Almost none can describe what their people actually do all day. The Agent Loop Foundry is a small frontier team that turns undocumented business processes into compounding agent loops.

Start a Recon Sprint

fixed fee · 2–4 weeks · one process

FIG. 00 — Fieldwork, 9:47 PM. The workflow doesn’t go home.

The official process is a lie.

What’s written down and what actually happens drift further apart every quarter nobody checks. The real workflow lives in inboxes, spreadsheets, Slack threads, and the memory of the one person who just knows.

That’s not a technology gap — it’s a reconnaissance gap. No platform or model upgrade closes it. Someone has to go find out what the business actually does.

SOP 7.2 — Invoice exception handlingrev. 2019
  1. 1.Vendor submits invoice through the portal40% arrive by email
  2. 2.AP validates PO match in the ERPDana exports to a spreadsheet
  3. 3.Exceptions route to the approval queueexceptions live in Slack
  4. 4.Manager approves within 48 hoursmedian: 9 days
  5. 5.System archives the audit trailthe audit trail is Dana

Last verified: two reorgs ago.

A worn office desk under harsh light: a monitor edged with sticky notes, a printed spreadsheet covered in handwritten marks, two desk phones, a stained mug, and tangled cables; an industrial robot arm reaches in from beyond the frame.
FIG. 01 — Field conditions. The workflow as found.

Found the real process.

The real one is messier — a workflow that never got written down. It lives in handwritten notes, half-remembered spreadsheets, and the heads of the people who run it.

We build loops, not pilots.

A compounding agent loop is a supervised AI workflow — wrapped in a durable harness of evals, traces, feedback capture, escalation, and permissions — that gets better because it is used.

Basic automation runs the same way forever until someone rebuilds it. A loop captures corrections, exceptions, and outcomes, and feeds them back into the system that produced them. The goal on day one is never full autonomy — it is a loop with clear boundaries, a real escalation point, and a mechanism that makes it better next month than it is today.

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This isn’t a menu. It’s a process.

Every client runs through the same six steps, in the same order — from an undocumented process to a loop that improves on its own.

  1. 01The Process Recon SprintFind out how a process actually works, not how the org chart says it works.entry · fixed fee
  2. 02The Agent Opportunity PortfolioA prioritized, ranked list of agent-loop opportunities — so you stop chasing whichever idea got pitched loudest.entry · included or fixed fee
  3. 03Marketplace IntelligenceFor every opportunity, an honest answer — platform, vertical product, automation layer, custom build, or no automation yet.recurring · subscription
  4. 04The Compounding Loop BlueprintTurn a chosen solution path into something buildable, not a recommendation on a slide.expansion · fixed fee
  5. 05The Prototype LoopProve the loop with evidence before anyone commits real budget to it.prototype · fixed fee plus usage costs
  6. 06The LoopOps RetainerKeep a deployed loop improving instead of drifting into an abandoned pilot.ongoing · monthly retainer

This is what we find, every time.

Different industry, different org chart — the hidden labor underneath is always the same.

Recon findingsdifferent company, same story
Gloved hands sorting a thick stack of printed invoices under a hard desk lamp, paper clips scattered on the desk.

FIG. 02 — The sort that happens by hand.

A dim office monitor showing a long queue of support tickets in a dark office; a small robot arm rests its gripper at the mouse.

FIG. 03 — The queue nobody drains.

A half-erased office whiteboard with ghost traces of a process flowchart.

FIG. 04 — The process, half-remembered.

Three scores decide what’s possible. Five gates decide what’s allowed.

We run every opportunity through the same instrument — then look for a reason to veto it.

Saturation Readiness

Is a cheaper model already good enough?

needs frontiercheap + harness

Economic Priority

Is it worth any engineering time?

ignore itdo it now

Harness Durability

Will it survive the next model?

gets deletedcompounds

Five gates · any one vetoes

  1. minimum quality
  2. error severity
  3. evaluation confidence
  4. distribution drift
  5. hidden failure risk
Override

A high score says it’s possible. A failed gate says not yet — the gate wins.

Try it yourself

Run one of your own tasks through this exact instrument.

Walk through scoring a single task

What we refuse to become.

  • A transformation consultancy

    Workshops produce energy, not a working loop.

  • An implementation agency

    We don't compete with integrators. We make their projects sharper, not bigger.

  • An adoption practice

    Adoption is your management chain's job, not ours.

  • A build-everything shop

    We won't force a custom agent where a strong product already exists.

We don’t count deployed agents. We count loops that measurably work — and that discipline is most of the product.

Find the work. Design the loop. Match the agent. Improve the system.

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