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Agentic Systems
Design Sprint

From whiteboard to working architecture in one day. We design a multi-agent system for one of your real use cases — roles, coordination, memory, guardrails and all.

Full-day (6h) 3–8 participants On-site or remote English or German

Why this workshop

Agents fail in the architecture,
not in the model.

Everyone has seen the demo: an agent plans, calls tools, and solves a task end-to-end. And most teams have seen what happens next — the same agent in production loops on edge cases, burns tokens on tasks a cron job would do better, or confidently takes an action nobody wanted. The gap between demo and dependable is rarely the model. It's the architecture around it.

Well-designed agent systems answer questions the demo never asked: which decisions need an LLM and which need code, how agents hand off work without losing context, what happens when a tool call fails halfway through a multi-step task, and where the hard permission boundaries sit when an agent acts on real systems.

This sprint compresses that design work into one focused day, applied to one of your real use cases. Not a slide-deck architecture — a decision-by-decision design your team can defend in review and start building the following week.


Agenda

What we work through

01

Use case triage

We pressure-test your candidate use case: where agents genuinely add value, where deterministic code wins, and what the honest ROI picture looks like.

02

Roles & responsibilities

Decomposing the workflow into agents with crisp responsibilities — and deciding what stays a plain function. Fewer agents, sharper contracts.

03

Coordination & communication

Orchestrator vs. peer patterns, handoff design, shared state vs. message passing — and how to keep context from degrading across hops.

04

Tools, contracts & failure handling

Designing tool interfaces agents can't misuse: idempotency, timeouts, partial-failure recovery, and retry semantics that don't cause double side-effects.

05

Memory & state

What the system must remember within a task, across tasks, and across users — connecting to memory architecture where the use case demands it.

06

Guardrails & the architecture document

Permission boundaries, human-in-the-loop gates, cost controls — then we consolidate every decision into the architecture document you take home.


Who it's for

Engineering teams about to build their first serious agent system — or rebuild one that disappointed
Architects who need to evaluate agent frameworks against a concrete design, not marketing
Product and engineering leads who must scope, budget and de-risk an agentic initiative

What you leave with

A production-ready architecture document for your specific use case
Clear agent boundaries: what's an agent, what's a function, what's a human decision
Tool contracts with explicit failure and recovery semantics
A guardrail and permission model you can show your security team
A build roadmap with the risky parts scheduled first

At a glance
Duration
Full-day (6h)
Group size
3–8
Location
On-site or remote
Pricing
On request

Good to know

Is this workshop off-the-shelf?

No. Before every workshop we run a 30-minute briefing call and tailor examples, exercises and depth to your industry, your stack and your team's starting point. The agenda above is the frame — the content inside it is yours.

What does it cost?

Pricing depends on group size, location and how much customisation your context needs. We'll give you a fixed quote after the briefing call — no surprises, no hidden day rates.

On-site or remote?

Both work. On-site tends to be stronger for group discussion and hands-on exercises; remote splits well into two half-sessions. We run workshops across Europe in English or German.

What if we don't have a use case yet?

Then we start 30 minutes earlier: we bring a triage framework and shortlist candidates from your process landscape in the briefing call, so the sprint day still works on something real.

Design your agent system
before you build it twice.

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