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Agentic workflows

Forward deployed engineers for AI

The AI automation you prototyped, rebuilt to run in production

You've already prototyped the AI feature. We rebuild it to run in production: durable workflows on Vercel that survive deployments, retry failed steps, and keep running under real traffic. The same pattern that briefs our sales team within a minute of a form submit, fills a content calendar overnight, and keeps a product catalogue current without anyone opening a spreadsheet.



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Real systems, not demos

How these work in practice

Every workflow below runs in production. They survive server restarts, retry failed steps automatically, and pause for external events without consuming compute. Here's what that looks like for real problems.



A blog pipeline that writes your content calendar

SEO-driven content generation

Your marketing team knows they should publish more. They don't have the hours. Here's what we build: a workflow that connects to the Ahrefs API, pulls your keyword gaps and ranking opportunities, then generates research briefs for each topic. A second workflow takes those briefs, researches the subject using AI, writes a first draft, and pushes it to your CMS as a draft post.

Set the whole thing on a CRON schedule. Monday morning, your editor opens Sanity and finds five draft posts waiting for review, each targeted at a keyword your competitors rank for and you don't. The AI did the research and the first draft. Your writer does the thinking and the polish.

Each step in the pipeline retries independently. If the Ahrefs API rate-limits you, that step waits and retries. If the LLM call fails, it tries again without re-fetching the keyword data. Deploy a code update while a draft is mid-generation? The workflow finishes on the old version.

If you operate in multiple markets, the same pipeline can generate localised versions of each post. The workflow takes your approved English draft, translates it, adjusts examples and references for the target region, and pushes each version to the correct locale in your CMS. One editorial review produces content for every market you sell into.



Lead enrichment that briefs your sales team

What we built for ourselves

When someone submits a contact form on our site, a workflow kicks off within seconds. It extracts the domain from their email, scrapes their company's website for context, then sends everything to Claude. The AI researches the company, looks at what they do, checks for recent news or funding rounds, and generates a structured brief. That brief lands in our Slack within a minute of the form submission.

The entire thing is about 40 lines of TypeScript. Each step uses a "use step" directive, so if Claude's API is slow or Slack returns a 500, that individual step retries without re-scraping the website. We use this ourselves, every day.

For clients, we extend this pattern to push enrichment data into their CRM, score leads based on company fit, and trigger different follow-up sequences depending on what the AI finds. A SaaS company can automatically route enterprise leads to their sales team and self-serve leads to a product tour.



Background agents that monitor and act

Long-running agents

Workflows are great for request-response pipelines. Some problems need an agent that lives in the background, watches for changes, decides what to do, and acts. Stale comparison pages that need fact-checking against a competitor's docs. Brand citation alerts in ChatGPT and Perplexity. A llms.txt file that should regenerate every time the product changes.

We build these on the same Vercel stack as our workflows: typed tool definitions, structured outputs via the AI SDK, Vercel Sandbox for any code execution the agent needs to run, and durable scheduling so the agent fires reliably. Schedules trigger them. Remote webhooks trigger them. Other agents trigger them.

Roboto's own CMS migration pages are kept current by a weekly background agent that scrapes the source CMS's docs, diffs against our YAML, and opens a pull request when something is out of date. The agent we built for ourselves is the same agent we ship to clients. If you want one watching your competitor's pricing, your product changelog, your brand citations across the AI search surfaces, we build it on the same foundation.



Evals that prove the agent works

Production agents need production tests

An agent without evals is a demo. The moment you connect it to real data, a prompt change can break it silently. We build eval pipelines alongside every production agent: golden datasets of inputs your agent should handle, deterministic checks for the parts you can grade with code, and LLM-as-judge grading for the parts you can't.

Every prompt change runs through the eval suite before it ships. Every model upgrade gets scored before you switch over. Regressions get caught before your editor reviews a bad draft or your sales team gets a wrong brief. The eval suite is the closest thing agentic systems have to a test suite, and it's the difference between "the agent worked last week" and "the agent works".

We treat evals as a productised add-on. They can be the starting point of an engagement if you already have an agent in production that isn't trustworthy, or they can be built alongside a new agent from day one.



The stack behind these systems



Vercel Workflow

Vercel Workflows

The Workflow Development Kit gives every step automatic retries, durable state, and replay-on-deploy. Open source, runs anywhere, but pairs cleanly with Vercel Fluid Compute.

AI SDK

Vercel AI SDK

Provider-agnostic model calls, structured outputs via Zod, tool use, streaming, and observability. Switch models without rewriting the agent.

Vercel

Vercel Sandbox

Isolated microVMs for code execution inside an agent. Lets agents run shell commands, clone repos, and execute generated code without giving them production access.

PostHog

PostHog LLM analytics

Every model call, every tool invocation, every conversation captured for review. Quality regressions and cost blowouts get caught the day they happen, not the week after.



Delivery model

Forward deployed engineers, embedded in your team

Agentic systems live inside your codebase, your content models, and your observability stack. They need daily iteration on prompts, tools, and editorial review.

So we ship them the way Palantir, OpenAI, and Anthropic ship AI: by embedding senior engineers directly into your team for the life of the engagement.



Engineers, embedded in your environment

How the model works

A Roboto FDE engagement puts one or two senior engineers into your codebase with the same access as your own team. Shared Slack channel, repo write access, on-call posture for the agents we ship. Weekly demos, daily-or-better async updates, and a documented playbook your team owns when the engagement winds down. We transfer knowledge as we go, so nothing depends on a rushed handover at the end.

The cadence matters because agentic systems aren't ship-and-walk-away projects. Prompt iteration runs daily once the agent hits real traffic. Tool integrations break in ways nobody predicts at scoping. Editorial review needs context only your team can give. An external vendor on a weekly call is too slow for that loop.

Engagements run a minimum of eight to twelve weeks so the build, observe, and iterate cycle has room to play out. Most settle into a rolling monthly retainer once the first systems are live and the next ones are queued.



Why we use this model for agents specifically

What it isn't

CMS migrations, headless Shopify builds, and Contentful implementations all ship cleanly as projects with handoff boundaries. Agentic work doesn't. The output is your voice, your data, and your customer-facing automation, and it changes weekly based on what real usage reveals.

That's why FDE applies to agentic workflows and AEO engagements, not to every service Roboto offers. If you're after a fixed-scope build with a clean handoff, our project teams handle that. If you're after an agent or workflow that needs to keep getting better in production, you want the embedded model.



Vercel agency partner

A Vercel partner agency, shipping production agents and workflows on Vercel's AI infrastructure since the first release of the Workflow Development Kit.

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Common questions

Thinking about agentic workflows?

Here are the questions we hear most often

What does a Forward deployed engineer engagement actually look like?

One or two senior Roboto engineers join your Slack, your repo, and your standups for the life of the engagement. We treat your codebase like ours: branches, pull requests, code review, deploys. Weekly demos cover what shipped, what's queued, and what decisions need your input. Daily async updates keep you ahead of the work. Minimum engagement is eight to twelve weeks; most settle into a rolling monthly retainer once the first agents are live.

How is this different from a typical AI automation agency?

Most AI automation agencies sell no-code workflows on Zapier, Make, or n8n. Useful for prototypes, fragile in production. We ship typed TypeScript on Vercel's durable workflow runtime, with eval pipelines, observability, and version control. The systems we build live inside your codebase, get reviewed in your pull request flow, and survive your deploys. Different toolchain, different reliability bar.

What is a durable workflow?

A program that saves its progress as it runs. If the server crashes, it picks up from the last completed step instead of starting over. Traditional server code loses everything on restart. Durable workflows don't. Think of it like a save point in a game. That makes them the most stable way to run AI systems or anything that needs to wait, for an API response, a human approval, or a scheduled delay, and still finish reliably. For AI orchestration specifically, where you're chaining multiple model calls, tool lookups, and external APIs together, durability turns a fragile chain into one that finishes even when a step fails.

Do we have to use Vercel?

No. The Workflow Development Kit is open source and runs anywhere. Vercel gives you zero-config deployment, but the same code works on AWS, Google Cloud, or your own servers. The AI SDK is similarly portable across model providers. We default to the Vercel stack because it ships faster and stays reliable, but the architecture travels.

Can you connect to our existing tools?

If it has an API, we can wire it in. We've built integrations with Ahrefs, PostHog, Slack, Sanity, various CRMs, payment processors, and custom internal tools. Each integration is a step in a workflow, so it gets automatic retries and error handling for free.

What does 'agentic' mean here?

Software that acts on its own with human oversight. An agentic workflow might research a lead, draft a blog post, or classify a support ticket without anyone clicking a button. A human reviews the output before it goes live. The agent handles the grunt work, people handle the judgment.

How do you handle AI accuracy?

Every workflow we build has a human review step where it matters. AI drafts the blog post, your editor approves it. AI enriches the lead, your sales rep reads the brief. AI classifies the ticket, your support team sees the suggestion. We don't ship workflows where AI output goes straight to your customers without a check. We also build eval pipelines for every agent we put into production, so quality degradation gets caught before your team feels it.

We already have AI features. Can you improve what we have?

Most teams we work with have a working prototype that needs to become production-grade. That usually means adding durability so it doesn't break on deploy, observability so you can debug failures, evals so quality stays measurable, and proper error handling so one bad API response doesn't tank the pipeline. We audit what you have and figure out the fastest path to reliable.



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