Results

This is what happens when you stop buying tools and start embedding an engineer.

Real architectures built inside real enterprises. Measured in hours recovered, errors eliminated, and people redirected to work that actually requires their expertise.

Global Logistics — Complex

A logistics provider was spending 15,000 hours a month on customs compliance. We brought it down to near-zero manual processing.

The situation

A multinational logistics company operating across 30+ countries had teams of compliance specialists manually cross-referencing complex bills of lading against constantly changing international regulatory files. Each shipment required a human to pull the bill of lading, look up the current regulations for the destination country, verify every line item against the regulatory requirements, and flag discrepancies. The work was repetitive, high-stakes, and entirely manual. One missed regulatory update could mean shipments held at port for weeks, costing the company $50K+ per incident in delays and penalties.

They had tried RPA tools. The tools worked for standard shipments but broke on non-standard formats, regulatory edge cases, and multi-jurisdiction filings — which represented 35% of their volume and 80% of their compliance risk.

What we built

We embedded an engineer on-site for six weeks. They shadowed the compliance team, mapped every document type, every regulatory source, and every exception workflow. Then they built a multi-agent pipeline:

  • A document-parsing agent using AWS Textract and Claude to extract structured data from bills of lading in any format — printed, handwritten, scanned, or digital
  • A regulatory monitoring agent that continuously ingests updates from regulatory feeds across all operating jurisdictions and maintains a live vector database of current requirements using Pinecone
  • A compliance verification agent using LangGraph to orchestrate the cross-referencing of shipment data against current regulations, checking every line item across multiple regulatory dimensions
  • An exception routing system that escalates genuine edge cases to human specialists with full context, recommended actions, and confidence scores

The system was deployed on the company's existing AWS infrastructure behind their firewall. Zero data leaves their environment.

AWS Textract Claude Pinecone LangGraph AWS Bedrock LangSmith

The outcome

  • 84% reduction in end-to-end processing time per file
  • Error rate dropped to 0.02% — 40x lower than the manual process
  • 40 full-time compliance specialists reassigned to strategic customer acquisition and carrier relationship management
  • Zero port-hold incidents in the first six months of operation
  • System processes the entire daily volume that previously required three full shifts of workers
  • Payback period: 47 days
Financial Services — Complex

A fintech company's loan decisions took 48 hours. Now they take 3 minutes.

The situation

A mid-market fintech processing $200M+ in annual loan volume was receiving thousands of applications daily. Each required a human analyst to manually review bank statements (PDF, CSV, and screenshot formats), tax returns (multiple years, multiple formats), pay stubs, and identity documents. The analyst had to extract financial data from each document, cross-reference it across sources, enter it into their risk scoring system, run the assessment, and make a recommendation.

Each application took 45–90 minutes of analyst time. The backlog was growing faster than they could hire. They were turning away qualified borrowers because they couldn't process applications fast enough, and their customer NPS was dropping because applicants waited days for decisions their competitors delivered in hours.

What we built

Our forward-deployed engineer spent the first two weeks embedded with the underwriting team, reviewing hundreds of actual applications, catalogued every document format, mapped every decision rule, and identified the specific points where manual work was creating bottlenecks versus adding genuine judgment.

  • A document processing pipeline using AWS Textract and GPT-4o to ingest bank statements, tax documents, and pay stubs in any format, extracting income, expenses, assets, liabilities, and employment history into a normalized schema
  • An automated financial analysis agent that calculates debt-to-income ratios, identifies income trends, flags inconsistencies across documents, and scores the application against the company's existing risk model
  • A decision routing engine built on LangGraph: high-confidence applications (clear approve or deny based on established criteria) process automatically with full audit trails. Ambiguous cases route to human analysts with a pre-assembled dossier — all extracted data, the analysis summary, flagged risk factors, and a recommended decision with confidence score
  • Full integration with their existing loan origination system, CRM, and compliance logging
GPT-4o AWS Textract LangGraph Custom ML scoring LangSmith

The outcome

  • Time-to-decision dropped from 48 hours to under 3 minutes for standard applications
  • 3.5x increase in daily processing volume with zero new analyst hires
  • Analysts now spend their time exclusively on genuinely complex cases that require human financial judgment
  • Customer NPS increased 22 points within three months
  • False positive rate on fraud detection improved by 18% due to more consistent cross-document analysis
  • Payback period: 52 days
Insurance — Advanced

An insurer's claims lifecycle went from 14 days to same-day resolution for standard claims.

The situation

A regional property and casualty insurer processing 2,000+ claims monthly had a claims lifecycle that touched six departments: intake, document collection, damage assessment, coverage verification, adjuster assignment, and payment authorization. Each handoff introduced delays, data re-entry, and opportunities for errors. Standard auto claims that should have been routine were taking 14–21 days to resolve because of the sheer number of manual steps and inter-department coordination.

Claimants were frustrated. Adjusters were spending 70% of their time on administrative tasks instead of complex loss assessment. And the company was losing customers to competitors with faster resolution times.

What we built

We embedded an engineer who mapped the entire claims lifecycle end-to-end, identifying which steps required genuine human judgment (complex damage assessment, fraud investigation, coverage disputes) and which were purely mechanical (document collection, coverage lookup, standard damage estimation, payment routing).

  • An intake agent that processes first notice of loss from any channel (web form, phone transcript, email, mobile app), extracts claim details, and creates a structured claim record in their Guidewire system
  • A document collection agent that identifies required supporting documentation based on claim type, sends automated requests to claimants, tracks submissions, and follows up on missing items
  • A damage assessment agent using GPT-4o Vision to analyze submitted photos, estimate damage severity, and compare against historical claims data for similar incidents
  • A coverage verification agent that reads the policy document, determines applicable coverage, deductibles, and limits, and confirms eligibility
  • An intelligent routing engine: standard claims with clear coverage and damage estimates below a configurable threshold process automatically to payment. Complex claims route to the appropriate adjuster with all documentation pre-assembled and a preliminary analysis already completed
GPT-4o Vision Claude LangGraph Guidewire API Azure OpenAI

The outcome

  • Standard claims (65% of volume) now resolve same-day, down from 14–21 days
  • Complex claims resolve in 3–5 days because adjusters receive pre-assembled dossiers instead of starting from scratch
  • Adjuster time on administrative tasks dropped from 70% to 15%
  • Claims satisfaction scores increased 31 points
  • 12 FTEs in the intake and coordination departments redeployed to customer retention and complex claims investigation
  • Payback period: 58 days
Healthcare Administration — Moderate

A hospital network cut prior authorization processing from 5 days to 4 hours.

The situation

A regional hospital network with 12 facilities was processing 800+ prior authorization requests weekly. Each request required staff to read the physician's order, look up the payer's specific authorization requirements (which vary by insurer, plan type, and procedure), gather supporting clinical documentation from the EHR, compile the submission package, and submit it through the payer's portal — often manually, because each payer has a different portal and format. The average turnaround was 5 business days, and denials due to incomplete submissions were running at 23%.

What we built

  • A requirements lookup agent that reads the physician's order, identifies the payer and plan, and retrieves the specific documentation requirements from a curated knowledge base built from each payer's guidelines
  • A clinical documentation agent that queries the EHR (Epic) through FHIR APIs to pull relevant patient history, lab results, imaging reports, and clinical notes, then assembles them into the format required by each specific payer
  • A submission agent that compiles the authorization package and submits it through the payer's portal or API, tracking confirmation and status
  • A quality check agent using Claude to review the complete package against the payer's requirements before submission, catching missing documentation that would result in denial
Claude Epic FHIR API LangChain AWS Bedrock

The outcome

  • Average processing time dropped from 5 business days to 4 hours
  • Denial rate due to incomplete submissions fell from 23% to 3%
  • 8 FTEs in the authorization department redeployed to patient financial counseling and complex case management
  • Estimated $2.1M annual revenue recovered from faster authorization turnaround
The pattern

Every engagement follows the same arc.

A team of smart people doing repetitive, rule-driven work that's too complex for off-the-shelf automation but too mechanical for the talent you've hired. Documents that need to be read and understood. Data that needs to move between systems with validation at every step. Decisions that follow clear criteria 85% of the time but require human judgment for the rest.

We embed an engineer, build custom AI workflows against your actual systems using the best available models and orchestration frameworks, and redirect those people to work that creates real value — the complex cases, the strategic decisions, the customer relationships that require a human mind. The math is always obvious in hindsight. The only question is how long you wait before you do it.

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