Every hop has a name attached to it.
Codiste carries AI agents from architecture all the way to production traffic, for venture studios, funds and the founders they back, across FinTech, RegTech, PropTech and MarTech. At every point in that route somebody is holding the work, and we say who.
What passes with it
A system does not usually break at a step. It breaks between two of them, in the gap where one team believed the other had picked it up.
Received: a product with agents in it somewherePasses on: one team holding all eight
Eight disciplines, and none of them changes hands.
Spread across five vendors, every one of these becomes a handover, and a handover is where the work goes missing.
- 01Strategy
- 02Architecture
- 03Retrieval
- 04Orchestration
- 05Guardrails
- 06Evaluation
- 07Deployment
- 08Observability
Most agents fail at the handover, not at the step.
The prototype worked because the person who built it was still holding it. Then it moves, and the context that made it behave stays behind in somebody's head. The model keeps answering from a position nobody is carrying any more, and it answers wrongly with complete confidence.
Diligence asks the custody question directly. Who holds this when it misbehaves at two in the morning, what did they receive, and can they show what the system did. Where the answer is a list of vendors, the round gets harder.
Received: a delivery datePasses on: three numbers we report against
Speed, leverage and risk travel with the work.
Speed
Weeks rather than quarters. Day 18 is the earliest we have had a voice deployment taking live requests.
Leverage
Senior engineers who have held production agents before, so none of the learning is billed to you.
Risk
Guardrails, evaluation and hallucination control are part of what gets carried, never added afterwards.
Three competencies, carried by one team.
Artificial Intelligence
Architecture, guardrails and evaluation designed together, so reliability is something the system holds rather than something bolted to it later.
Blockchain Innovation
Decentralised applications built to carry scale, on secure and transparent ledgers that keep data intact as it crosses enterprise ecosystems. Supply chain transparency. Tokenisation.
Machine Learning
Forecasting through to hyper-personalisation, so an archive that has only ever been held starts returning something. Predictive analytics. Computer vision.
Received: whatever exists todayPasses on: something in production
Four steps, and what passes between them.
The route is the same whatever exists already. Tell us where you are and the hop you would be picked up at is the one that matters.
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Discover
Product, data and every decision the agent will own are written down in the opening days, and that document is what the next step receives.
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02
Prototype
Your team gets something they can operate early, so judgement forms against behaviour, and the behaviour is what passes on.
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03
Launch
It goes out hardened, guardrails enforced, audit trail writing from the first request, and the running system is what changes hands.
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04
Iterate
What the agent logs in production becomes the next revision. Nothing is handed back, because tuning and retraining carry on while it serves.
Where would we pick it up?
Four agents that were handed over and stayed up.
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Propizone CRM Voice AI
A portal enquiry at eleven at night used to reach voicemail and wait for whoever opened the inbox. It is answered in eight seconds and the lead is qualified on the spot.
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CandiPro ATS Voice AI
Five hundred applicants meant five hundred screening calls sitting with one recruiter. The agent runs the hiring manager's interview and passes back a ranked shortlist.
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03
Neo-Bank Voice AI
In a US neo-bank app, a voice layer takes the account question and then moves the money, reading a confirmation back before the transfer clears.
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ReachOut Voice AI
ReachOut's agents ring back within seconds, so the conversation happens while the person still wants to have it.
Received: one introductionPasses on: terms that hold across the fund
One arrangement travels with every company you back.
Rates, priority access and delivery frameworks are agreed once and apply wherever your money sits. We learn the thesis beside your partners, so a founder is handed a team rather than a vendor list.
- FinTech
- RegTech
- PropTech
- MarTech
- SaaS
- AdTech
- SportsTech
Eight frameworks, carried from the first commit.
Data residency, PII handling, audit trails and explainability are settled in the architecture, so nothing has to be retrofitted at the point where the work changes hands.
- 01SOC 2
- 02ISO 27001
- 03GDPR
- 04HIPAA
- 05EU AI Act
- 06FINRA
- 07PCI DSS
- 08CCPA
Why a fund hands us the next one.
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01
Studio velocity
Engineers arrive already holding the knowledge of where production agents give way, so the opening weeks go on building.
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02
Cross-stack fluency
A portfolio runs on many stacks and so do we: voice, LLM, agentic, retrieval, edge, and whichever legacy system is still carrying it.
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Reliability as discipline
Guardrails, evaluation and hallucination control are structural, not a pass made over the top before launch.
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Investor-grade delivery
Your runway, your round and your reputation are all in somebody's hands. Our name travels with the work, so it is done the way a travelling name demands.
Tell us what needs handing over.
Say what exists, what it sits inside, and who is holding it now. An engineer replies with an approach, an effort range, and what would pass to us first.
Thanks, we have it.
Someone reads it today.