What is an AI agent, in practice?
An AI agent is a loop. A language model reads the request, picks a tool, reads what the tool returns and decides what to do next, until the task is done or it has to ask. The model is the easy part. The work is in the tools, the permissions around them and the tests that tell you when the loop goes wrong.
Mirai Minds builds agents that live inside existing systems. For a US logistics software company we exposed the client's platform APIs as MCP tools and put a chat agent in front of them. For Rouh we built a desktop agent that operates a browser from screenshots, for tasks that have no API at all. For iKoMatch the agent is a pipeline that discovers, verifies and matches investors every day.
How do you keep a person in the loop?
We decide with you which actions an agent may take alone. Reading data usually needs no approval. Writing records, spending money or messaging a customer does. Those steps pause and show a person what will happen, with the evidence the agent used. In the iKoMatch data pipeline, no investor record goes live until a reviewer approves it from a side-by-side diff.
Every tool call is logged with its inputs, outputs and timing. When something goes wrong, you can see which step failed and why, instead of rereading a chat transcript.
How do you know it works?
Before we build, we collect real examples of the task and agree what a correct result looks like. That becomes the test set. Each release runs against it, an LLM judge scores the results, and a person reviews the cases the judge flags. For iKoMatch, a judge re-scores the previous day's recommendations every night and files concrete fixes. On our Voice Agents platform, a GEPA-based optimizer tests prompt changes against past calls before they ship.
Judges are models too, and they drift. We check them against human labels and let reviewer feedback override them.
What does a typical build look like?
Week 1 is access, examples and the test set. Weeks 2 to 6 cover the tools, the agent loop, approval flows and tracing, with a working version running on real data early. Then comes a launch with a person reviewing outputs, and a period of tuning prompts and tools against what production shows. Most builds ship in two to eight weeks.
If the agent needs to talk on the phone or on WhatsApp, it pairs with our voice AI agents and WhatsApp AI agents work. If it needs to read documents reliably, see custom LLM and document AI.