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ABOUT ACTIVEWIZARDS

Production AI engineering since 2010.

Design judgment before code. Live systems stabilized. Experienced architects close to the work.

FOUNDER

Igor Bobriakov

15 years deploying production AI systems — from real-time healthcare anomaly detection to autonomous content engines. Author of Production-Ready AI Agents. The engagements on this site reflect direct architecture decisions, not delegated project management.

Founded 2010
Focus Production AI platforms and agentic systems
Philosophy Observability, reliability, security
Engagement style Artifact-heavy, engineering-first, senior-led
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Production-Ready
AI Agents

A Developer's Guide to Building Scalable, Reliable and Observable AI Agents

Igor Bobriakov
BUYER CONTEXT

What makes this urgent

A system is straining. A decision is blocked. The cost of wrong architecture is becoming visible.

RESCUE

A promising AI initiative feels fragile

Latency, retry debt, observability gaps, weak evals — surfacing now that the system is moving to production.

Need: honest failure-mode map. Credible path back to trust.

GREENFIELD

High-stakes build. Wrong design is expensive.

Should this be agentic? What governance belongs in the architecture? Which delivery path before effort compounds?

Need: tighter design path. Explicit tradeoffs. Rationale leadership can defend.

EMBEDDED RIGOR

Good team, but architecture review is missing

Key architecture calls without challenge around control boundaries, sequencing, reliability, or operating cost.

Need: stronger review discipline. Fewer months lost undoing week-one decisions.

ACTIVE WORK

What this looks like

Autonomous workflows. Knowledge infrastructure. Streaming data platforms.

Next Step

Bring us the system that matters

Submit system context, constraints, and delivery pressure. A Principal Engineer reviews every submission and recommends the right next step.

1. Context

We review the system, constraints, and where risk is most likely to surface.

2. Recommendation

You get a direct recommendation: audit, advisory, sprint, or pause.

3. Next Step

If there is a fit, we define the shortest useful engagement.

No SDRs. A Principal Engineer reviews every submission.