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AI agents & API integrations

AI agents & API integrations: connect your tools, keep every action in bounds.

Design an agent that can consult your tools, prepare an action and carry it out within a defined scope. From cloud services to sovereign deployment, with explicit access and verifiable results.

This work fits your situation if…

  • Your teams keep switching between tools

    A single request means looking up information, copying it, then updating an application. You want to connect these steps while keeping the checks that matter and each user’s permissions.

  • Your assistant needs to carry out a task

    You want to move from an answer to an action: check availability, prepare a booking or look up a reference in an external source. You need to decide what the agent may do, what it must have confirmed and when it must stop.

  • A prototype works, but the integration is still to be built

    The model handles a few examples. It still has to be connected to your applications, with access management, error handling and checks on the result across the complete workflow.

What the engagement can deliver.

The scope and deliverables are agreed together during scoping.

An explicit scope of actions
Authorized tasks, accessible data, steps that require confirmation and stop conditions. Rules that can be automated deterministically are separated from the tasks that need a model.
Connections to your applications
Integrations through the available APIs or data exchange interfaces, with permissions limited to what is needed and controlled data formats. What happens when a service is unavailable or access is denied is defined at design time.
An approval flow people can use
Users can understand the proposed action, check the information they need and confirm the operations agreed at scoping. Errors and completed operations are presented so that work can be picked up again.
Acceptance testing and a handover file
A set of representative cases, acceptance criteria and checks on the result inside the application. The documentation covers connections, limits, usage costs to monitor and the operational responsibilities agreed.

A clear sequence.

  1. Describe one task end to end

    Start from a concrete request, the applications involved and the expected result. Identify the business decisions, the access available and the steps where a simple rule is enough.

  2. Build and test a limited scope

    Connect the tools required and test anonymized cases, including missing information, denied access and interruptions. Check that a retry does not trigger a second, unwanted action.

  3. Integrate, hand over and monitor

    Validate the workflow with its users, document operations and organize onboarding. Observations from real use then inform which actions to extend or adjust.

Case studies that show the work.

Plaidoria — sourced legal drafting

Preparing a legal brief combines research through the official APIs of Légifrance (the official French legal database) and Judilibre (the French courts’ case-law database), drafting, and reference checks. The lawyer reviews the draft: this work illustrates an AI pipeline connected to external sources and to professional review.

Read the case study : Plaidoria — sourced legal drafting

Before we start.

Does this work really need an AI agent?

Not always. If inputs, rules and outputs are predictable, deterministic automation may be enough. A model is justified when a request or variable content has to be interpreted. Scoping may lead to a solution that combines both, or one that uses no AI at all.

Can you connect the tools we already use?

We look at their APIs, imports and exports, the access you can grant and the limits of each service. Some connections are direct; others need adaptation or are not possible with the permissions available. The first conversation can start from a list of tools and a described workflow, without sharing any access credentials.

Can the system use cloud services?

Yes. External APIs and cloud services are among the options considered. When your constraints call for a sovereign environment or local processing, the architecture is adapted accordingly. The choice depends on the data, the permitted flows, the dependencies you accept and your capacity to operate the system.

How do you know an agent is ready for use?

Acceptance testing looks at the completed task: the right information consulted, the right action taken, the right person asked for approval. It also covers ambiguous requests, tool errors and repeated attempts. Results, required corrections and usage costs are reviewed on agreed cases before the scope is widened.

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Next step

Let’s start from your need.

Describe a task, the tools involved and what currently requires your intervention. This first example helps determine whether you need an agent, an integration or a simpler automation.

Discuss your project