STONECLAD/ SYSTEMS
AI Systems Engineering

We engineer AI systems
that operate your business around the clock.

Stoneclad designs, builds, and runs agentic infrastructure — fleets of autonomous AI agents, production media pipelines, multi-tenant platforms, and the telemetry that keeps it all honest. Not prompts and chatbots: engineered systems with uptime, audit trails, and human control gates.

50+
Autonomous agents deployed in production
24/7
Dedicated ops node — always-on execution host
15+
End-to-end automated pipelines in daily operation
10+
Custom-built agent-native CLIs & integrations
100%
Human-gated: every outbound action passes an approval gate

How it works

Design · Build · Install · Run

You don't learn AI. You don't manage software. We build a custom machine around your business — then it runs for you.

STEP 1

Map

We sit down with you and map how your business actually runs — every task, handoff, and hour it eats. Nothing technical required on your side. You talk; we take it from there.

STEP 2

Design

We architect a custom system of AI agents around those operations: what each agent handles, what it's never allowed to do on its own, and exactly where you stay in control.

STEP 3

Install

We build the system on our infrastructure and wire it into the tools you already use. Nothing for you to set up, host, or maintain — it arrives working.

STEP 4

Run

The agents work around the clock. You get one plain-English briefing a day and approve the important things from your phone. That's your whole job.

The result: the busywork that used to run through you now runs through the machine — publishing, follow-up, content, monitoring, reporting — while you keep final say over everything that matters. It simplifies your business instead of adding another tool to manage.

The system stack

Six layers, one machine

Everything we ship sits somewhere on this stack. Each layer is built, versioned, and monitored like production software — because it is.

L1 — BASE

Infrastructure & Hosting

Vercel · self-hosted VPS · dedicated ops hardware · Tailscale mesh · Git/CI

Dedicated always-on execution hardware plus cloud hosting. Every deployment is version-controlled, auto-deployed, and security-audited before it ships. State lives in git and the database — never on one machine.

L2 — DATA

Data & Knowledge Layer

Postgres · row-level multi-tenancy · vector search / RAG · structured knowledge bases

Multi-tenant Postgres with row-level security, vector-embedded knowledge bases for retrieval, and codified expertise corpora — entire bodies of client knowledge made queryable by agents.

L3 — TOOLING

Agent-Native Tooling

Custom CLI factory · API integrations · headless browser automation · webhook infrastructure

We build purpose-made command-line tools that give agents direct, token-efficient control of external platforms — CRMs, publishing platforms, social APIs, community platforms — including services with no public API at all.

L4 — AGENTS

Autonomous Agent Fleet

Claude-powered agents · scheduled + event-driven · risk gates · kill switches

A production fleet of specialized AI agents — triage, publishing, monitoring, content, outreach, reporting — each running on a schedule or trigger, inside an enforcement cage with audit logs and hard kill switches.

L5 — PIPELINES

Production Pipelines

Media production · publishing · lead generation · CRM automation · reporting

Multi-stage automated workflows that take real work end to end: an episode from raw recording to published-everywhere, a lead from cold contact to booked call, a month of activity to a branded client report.

L6 — TELEMETRY

Observability & Control

Heartbeats · off-host watchdogs · escalation ladders · self-healing · mobile command

The layer most AI shops skip. Every agent emits evidence of its work; independent watchdogs detect silence, not just failure; alerts escalate instead of repeating; routine issues self-heal. The operator commands the whole fleet from a phone.

Capability menu

What we build & operate

Agentic Systems

Autonomous AI workforces
  • Fleets of scheduled & event-driven AI agents with defined roles
  • Multi-agent orchestration — planner, worker, and verifier tiers
  • Enforcement cages: risk gates, spend limits, kill switches, audit trails
  • Human-in-the-loop approval flows (stage → review → go)
  • Persona agents operating inside live communities under strict voice rules

Custom Tooling & Integration

The CLI factory
  • Purpose-built, agent-native CLIs for any third-party API
  • Side-door integrations for platforms with no public API
  • Headless browser automation for web-only workflows
  • Webhook infrastructure, event routing, and secure credential handling
  • 35× more token-efficient than off-the-shelf AI tool connections

AI Media Production

Content at machine scale
  • Automated video editing — cuts, grading, captions, motion graphics
  • Voice cloning, AI voiceover, music, and broadcast audio mastering
  • Avatar video and generative image/video pipelines
  • Programmatic video: branded intros, overlays, data-driven renders
  • AI-judged shorts clipping with human final approval

Automation & Orchestration

Workflow engineering
  • Self-hosted workflow orchestration (n8n) wired to every system
  • CRM automation: pipelines, forms, calendars, nurture sequences
  • Multi-platform publishing — podcast, YouTube, shorts, social fan-out
  • Intelligent reply handling and inbox triage
  • Scheduled reconciliation jobs that catch what triggers miss

Data & Knowledge Infrastructure

Codified expertise
  • Multi-tenant Postgres with row-level security isolation
  • Vector search and retrieval-augmented generation (RAG)
  • Knowledge extraction: entire courses & corpora made agent-queryable
  • Voice-profile modeling so AI output stays in the client's voice
  • Cross-system state sync — one source of truth, everywhere

Web & Product Engineering

Full-stack builds
  • Multi-tenant SaaS platforms in production (Next.js / Postgres)
  • High-converting marketing sites, funnels, and checkout systems
  • Stripe payment infrastructure — plans, installments, dual pricing
  • Bot-protected forms: Turnstile, honeypots, rate limiting as standard
  • Client portals and review/approval surfaces

Growth Systems

Acquisition machinery
  • Cold-email lead-gen engine: sourcing, enrichment, sending, AI replies
  • Content engines: one recording atomized across every platform
  • Community platform operations run by supervised agents
  • Email lifecycle architecture and deliverability engineering
  • Analytics, attribution, and automated monthly reporting

Reliability & Security

Systems that stay up
  • Off-host watchdogs that detect agent silence, not just failure
  • Escalating alert ladders — persistent faults get louder, never quieter
  • Self-healing routines for known failure classes
  • Synthetic canary agents that continuously test the monitoring itself
  • Security-first: secrets hygiene, RLS, pre-ship audits on every push

Mobile Command & Reporting

The operator's cockpit
  • Two-way mobile command channel — approve, task, and query by text
  • Daily executive dispatch: one briefing instead of a hundred pings
  • Urgency-ranked alerting with deduplication and deferral memory
  • Branded, plain-language monthly client reports, auto-assembled
  • Fleet-health status on demand: one command answers "is everything OK?"

Engineering doctrine

Why our systems hold

Autonomy behind an airlock

Agents do the work; humans keep the keys. Every outbound, client-facing, or irreversible action passes a stage → review → go gate. Autonomy without a gate is a liability — we engineer the gate first.

Exit code 0 is not proof

A process finishing is a fact about the process, not the work. Our agents emit receipts — evidence of what was actually produced — and independent watchdogs verify presence of output, not absence of errors.

Escalate on streak, not recency

Most alerting suppresses duplicates and accidentally swallows outages. Ours does the opposite: a fault that persists across windows climbs a severity ladder. A three-day outage cannot hide as a "duplicate."

The monitoring gets monitored

A synthetic canary agent deliberately fails on schedule — proving the alert path works — and deliberately goes silent on another, proving absence detection works. We test the watchdog, not just the fleet.

CLI-first, token-lean

We wrap external services in purpose-built command-line tools instead of bloated generic connectors — measured at roughly 35× the token efficiency, with reliability that holds at scale where generic AI tool connections degrade.

Verified before claimed

Nothing is "done" until an automated verifier has built it, rendered it, and checked it — and a security audit has cleared it. "The code looks right" is not a shipping standard here.

Running in production today

Not a roadmap — a fleet

A sample of the autonomous systems currently operating on our infrastructure, every day, for us and our clients.

SystemWhat it does autonomouslyCadence
Publishing pipelineTakes a finished episode to podcast platforms + YouTube; stages for approval, publishes on "go", verifies liveper episode
Shorts autopilotClips long-form video, AI-judges candidates against craft + claim-risk rules, stages picks for human sign-offper episode
Content batch engineTurns each episode transcript into a full multi-platform social batch, QA-gates it, routes to client reviewper episode
Email sentinelTriages inboxes, surfaces what matters, drafts responses — never sends without approvalevery 30 min
Fleet watchdogOff-host absence detection across the entire agent fleet with escalating severityevery 15 min
Self-heal routinesDetects and repairs known infrastructure faults before anyone noticescontinuous
Executive dispatchCompiles the day's activity, alerts, and email intelligence into one end-of-day briefingdaily 17:30
Form & plan sentinelsContinuously verifies every live client form and payment plan is actually workingdaily
Engagement

Most agencies rent you hands.
We build you a machine.

If your business runs on expertise, content, and client relationships, nearly every operational layer of it can be engineered. Bring us the bottleneck — we'll bring the system that removes it.

Scoping is conversational — engagements are architected per system, per business.