AI & agentic systems

AI serving your workflows, not the other way around.

I design governed AI systems that handle real business processes: specialised AI experts, multi-agent workflows where justified, human validation where it matters.

The right level of AI in the right place

Autonomy is not a goal, it is a parameter. The question is not “can we automate?” but “at what level of autonomy does this process actually gain?”

  1. AI assistant

    AI assists a person on a precise task. The human steers, the AI accelerates.

  2. Specialised AI expert

    A dedicated AI expert for one domain: analysis, document processing, structured extraction.

  3. Intelligent workflow

    Several orchestrated steps, with specialisation and quality control at every boundary.

  4. Agentic system

    The system acts on its own within a bounded scope, under explicit guardrails.

Five levels of autonomy — you choose, you don’t endure

Every step of autonomy must pay for itself: in created value, not in added risk. The retained level is justified in the design, not afterwards.

  1. Assist

    AI helps, the human does.

  2. Analyze

    AI analyses and documents, the human interprets.

  3. Recommend

    AI recommends, the human decides.

  4. Act with approval

    AI acts, the human approves.

  5. Act autonomously

    AI acts on its own, within an explicit frame.

Designed and operated in real conditions

Three AI systems in daily use — not demos, not prototypes. Each one illustrates a level of the taxonomy above.

CryptoInvestYL

Expert AI systems

Automated signals and analysis for multi-portfolio management, with the human decision kept where it counts.

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CIYL Engine

Multi-agent workflow

Editorial content production by specialised agents: separated production and verification, human approval before publishing.

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Aurora

Agentic engineering

An agentic engineering environment: specialised agents, persistent state, adversarial review. Open source under the MIT license.

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My position

The business problem first

AI is never the starting point: the process to improve is. The technology is chosen after understanding the problem.

Every level of autonomy must be justified

Each step of autonomy must pay for itself — in created value, not in added risk. Deliberate, not endured.

Human validation at critical points

The system proposes, the human publishes — where errors are expensive. Checkpoints are part of the architecture.

Cost and observability from day one

Tokens, calls, drift: instrumented, not guessed. An AI system without observability is not a system, it is a promise.

A process to automate?

Describe your workflow: I will come back with a first read of the subject and the appropriate level of autonomy.

Discuss an AI workflow