Engineering writing from Svolta on agents, quality checks, systems, and practical AI builds for operations teams.https://svoltagroup.com/en-auhttps://svoltagroup.com/insights/ai-agent-infrastructure/https://svoltagroup.com/insights/ai-agent-infrastructure/Agents fail in production for infrastructure reasons, not model reasons: no grounding, no evals, no audit trail, no data layer. The five components underneath every agent system that survives contact with a real queue.Sat, 04 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTInfrastructureai infrastructureagentsproduction aihttps://svoltagroup.com/insights/custom-ai-agent-development-services/https://svoltagroup.com/insights/custom-ai-agent-development-services/Every vendor sells 'custom' AI agents. The word should mean your workflow, your systems, your data, your evals, and your ownership at handover. A checklist for reading proposals, and the parts that should never be custom.Sat, 04 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTAgentsai agentscustom developmentbuying advicehttps://svoltagroup.com/insights/evals-before-agents/https://svoltagroup.com/insights/evals-before-agents/Write the eval set on your own data before you pick the framework, the model, or the vector database. Skip this and the project burns a quarter relitigating quality questions you could have answered in a week.Thu, 04 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMTEvalsevalsagentsproductiongovernancehttps://svoltagroup.com/insights/agentic-workflows-production/https://svoltagroup.com/insights/agentic-workflows-production/A demo agent and a production agent share a vocabulary. They do not share an infrastructure. Caching, deterministic fallbacks, observability, eval gates on every change. The boring discipline most teams skip.Thu, 21 May 2026 00:00:00 GMTAgentsagentsproductioninfrastructurereliabilityhttps://svoltagroup.com/insights/knowledge-base-not-ready-for-rag/https://svoltagroup.com/insights/knowledge-base-not-ready-for-rag/Retrieval quality is a data hygiene problem before it is a vector-database problem. The corpus audit nobody runs is the work that decides whether the RAG pilot survives the third demo.Fri, 08 May 2026 00:00:00 GMTRetrievalretrievalragdataknowledgehttps://svoltagroup.com/insights/process-mapping-as-the-first-artifact/https://svoltagroup.com/insights/process-mapping-as-the-first-artifact/Map the process before you write a prompt. The map is where you find the work an agent can actually do, and the implicit context that will kill the project if it stays hidden until integration.Fri, 03 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMTProcessprocessdiscoveryoperationsdiagnosticshttps://svoltagroup.com/insights/infrastructure-decisions-2026/https://svoltagroup.com/insights/infrastructure-decisions-2026/The decisions that matter in a mid-market AI build this year: model routing, retrieval over fine-tuning, hybrid search, caching, observability. And the ones the discourse is wrong about.Thu, 12 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMTInfrastructureinfrastructurearchitecturemodelsobservability