How we work
Agents build your deployment. People stand behind it.
From the first conversation to live operations, the pattern is the same: AI does the work, your experts and ours review what ships, and you own what gets built.
01Before you sign
Start with a concierge, not a contract
Before anything is signed, we put a concierge agent in a shared channel with your team. It speaks plain language, not engineering. Its job is to understand how you run, answer honestly whether Authentica can help with what you are facing, and find the low-hanging, high-ROI workflows worth automating first.
It is grounded in the product's own documentation, and when it doesn't know an answer, it says so and routes the question to a person instead of guessing. It never touches your systems, and it never over-promises.
What it does
- Learns your operation from the conversation
- Answers product and integration questions in plain language
- Surfaces the workflows worth automating first
- Captures requests precisely and routes them to our team
- Hands off to a live workflow demo when you are ready
Where it hands off
See the speed first.
We build a custom workflow demo on sample data so you can watch an agent do the actual work in minutes. No data of yours required to start, and nothing touches your systems until you decide to move forward.
Book a demo02The build
Meet your AI forward-deployed engineer (AI FDE)
When you sign, a crew of agents goes to work on your engagement: discovery over your SOPs and data, drafts of your operating model, a benchmark calibrated from your real scenarios, and the coordination in between. Everything they produce is a draft for human review. Nothing reaches your deployment unsigned.
Discovery
Read the operation.
Agents work through your SOPs, transcripts, spreadsheets, and exports, and turn what they find into typed proposals for your operating model.
agents do the workCalibration
Grade the work.
An eval agent builds the benchmark from your real scenarios, calibrates it, and watches for drift once you are live.
agents calibrate · humans labelCoordination
Keep it moving.
A conversational agent works alongside our engineers on your engagement, keeping the build moving and the people informed.
agents assist · humans directThe write gate
One way in.
There is exactly one path that writes to your deployment, and everything on it lands as a pull request (PR) that a person reviews and signs.
humans approveBuild
Agents draft the operating model, scaffold the benchmark, and open the PRs. Every artifact is a draft for a person to review. You are not receiving autonomous output yet.
Gate: the operating model is merged, the first benchmark cases pass five runs out of five, and the test plan is signed off by your team and ours.
Evals
Your team runs the system against your real workflows, with daily check-ins. The agents shift from authoring to validating, and every miss you flag becomes a benchmark case before it can recur.
Gate: every scenario on the signed-off list passes, and you give the explicit go-live sign-off.
Live
Agents make real decisions in production. The engagement shifts to stewardship: drift watch, anomaly response, and a weekly cadence on operational health.
Each stage ends on evidence, not on a date. The benchmark discipline behind the gates is OrgBench.
03Your experts hold the pen
Your operating model has an IDE
The operating model is not locked inside our engineering team. It has its own IDE, and the engine that validates your edits live in the browser is the same engine that enforces the model in production. What is valid in the editor is what runs. Edits gather into a change set you can diff line by line, try on staging, and ship as a pull request, with version history and snapshot rollback underneath. It is included in every engagement.
You can also just describe the change. The IDE agent turns plain language into a drafted edit, the way a coding assistant drafts code, and its proposal clears exactly the same validation, review, and gates a person's edit does. Your experts hold the pen either way: nothing ships unreviewed.
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04Throughout
A forward deployed engineer owns your engagement
Every deployment includes a forward deployed engineer who builds your operating model, configures your integrations, and creates your workflows. Not self-serve-and-pray. We are committed to making it work for your team. Your data stays yours, and we never train third-party models on it.
The AI FDE works alongside that engineer from day one, in the tools you already use: automating the drafts and validating the output, while the engineer reviews what ships and answers for the result.
Dana Reyes 9:02 AM
We keep getting dinged on UK customs, the HS codes on a few SKUs look wrong. Can the agents catch these before we file?
Authentica FDE APP 9:02 AM
On it. I'll pull the last 90 days of UK entries, diff each classification against the tariff schedule, and flag the mismatches. Want me to draft the correction check too?
Dana Reyes 9:04 AM
Yes please, and make sure nothing files without us signing off.
Authentica FDE APP 9:08 AM
Done. I added a customs classification check to your operating model and wrote gold cases from your real entries. It's in staging as a PR, gated so nothing files until your team approves.
PR · add customs_classification_checkstaging · 12 gold cases passing · needs your review ✅ 2🎯 1
One workflow, one measurable result, then you decide.
We scope tight on purpose. If we do not earn workflow two, we do not get it. Start with a workflow demo on sample data and see an agent do your kind of work first.