Agentic AI that
does real work.
Engineered to be reliable.
ALT designs and deploys custom AI agents and edge AI systems for engineering workflows, business process automation, and Physical AI applications — built with the same rigor we apply to hardware. Not chatbots. Not RPA relabeled. Genuine agentic AI that operates autonomously across complex, multi-step processes.
Both on-device edge deployment and cloud-connected agentic pipelines.
Local & private LLM deployment — your IP and data stay in your infrastructure.
Every agent validated against real-world cases before going live.
100% U.S.-based engineering team, Santa Barbara CA.
Anyone can wire a chatbot to an API. Making an agent that's accurate, autonomous, and safe enough to trust with real processes is a different problem — and the one ALT focuses on. We started by automating our own engineering workflows. Now we bring that same discipline to yours.
AI Automation Audit
Find out exactly which workflows to automate, in what order, and what it's worth to your business — whether you build with us or not.
Self-Assessment
- 10-question assessment
- Instant scorecard of your biggest bottlenecks
- Workflows most likely to pay off with AI
- Email deliverable — yours to keep
- Upgrade to the full audit anytime
AI Automation Audit
- 60-min working session with an ALT engineer
- Workflow map of your most repetitive processes
- Opportunity scoring (time, payback, feasibility)
- Prioritized implementation roadmap
- Written report in 10 business days
- 100% credited toward a build within 90 days
AI automation services.
Engineering process automation
ALT's deepest expertise — engineering teams run on repetitive, judgment-heavy workflows generic tools fail at.
- CAD & design workflow agents — drawing checks, tolerance flagging, BOM generation
- Reverse engineering support — scan data into structured CAD workflows
- Automated change orders, test reports, compliance documentation
- QC & inspection data parsing — out-of-tolerance flagging, trend analysis
- Supplier & procurement automation — RFQ drafting, lead-time tracking
- AM process optimization — slicer recommendations, print quality analysis
Business process automation
The same discipline applied to any high-volume, repeatable, judgment-based business function.
- Customer support & ticket triage — categorize, route, resolve, escalate
- Sales & lead qualification — research, score, draft outreach, keep CRM current
- Back-office & finance — invoice reconciliation, expense processing, reporting
- Internal knowledge agents — connected to your docs, tools, transcripts
- Custom agentic pipelines — multi-step workflows designed end-to-end
Edge AI & on-device ML deployment
ML models and agentic perception deployed directly on embedded hardware. No cloud dependency, no latency, no connectivity failure modes.
- On-device inference — models optimized for embedded MCUs and edge AI chips
- Computer vision pipelines — detection, pose estimation, scene understanding
- Agentic perception for robotics — sensor fusion, state estimation, control
- Model quantization & compression for resource-constrained hardware
Private & local LLM deployment
Locally-hosted or private-instance LLMs so your data never leaves your infrastructure.
- On-premises LLM deployment — your hardware or private cloud
- Air-gapped deployment for classified or export-controlled environments
- Private RAG over your internal document corpus
- Model selection, fine-tuning, and ongoing management
AI that runs in the physical world.
ALT is one of the only AI automation companies that also engineers the physical hardware the AI runs on.
Hardware + software, one team
The same engineers who design your robotic structure or prosthetic also deploy the AI perception and control stack. No integration risk between AI vendor and hardware vendor.
Agentic perception for autonomous systems
Full agentic perception loops — sense, interpret, plan, act — so a drone navigates, a prosthetic adapts, a robot handles novel situations without human override.
Sensor fusion at the edge
Multi-modal sensor fusion (vision, IMU, tactile, environmental) running on embedded hardware without a cloud connection.
Making AI agents actually reliable.
Hallucination control
Agents grounded in your actual data via RAG, structured outputs, and guardrails that reject low-confidence responses.
QA & validation before deployment
Every agent tested against real-world cases — including adversarial inputs — before going live.
Cost-optimized model selection
Smaller, faster, cheaper models matched to the task — cost proportional to value, not maximized by default.
RAG over your internal data
Answers grounded in your documents, CAD libraries, and operational data — not general web training.
Production monitoring & drift detection
Deployed agents monitored and updated as models and data evolve — launch isn't the finish line.
Human-in-the-loop architecture
Clear escalation paths — the system knows when to act autonomously and when to hand off.
From audit to autonomous agent.
Automation audit
Map how your team actually works and identify the workflows with the fastest payback and best AI readiness.
Design & architecture
Define agent ownership, map the workflow, agree success criteria, select models, design integration.
Build, integrate & test
Build in code, integrate with your stack, validate against real cases including hallucination and edge-case testing.
Deploy, monitor & iterate
Staged rollout, then ongoing monitoring, drift detection, and model updates.
Powered by ALT agents. We don't just sell AI automation — we run on it.
150+ custom AI agents operate our own sales, proposals, marketing, analytics, and finance workflows — built with the same engineering discipline we deliver to clients. If an agent can't run a workflow reliably, we fix the agent, not the process.
Proposal pipeline
Agents that research opportunities, draft contract proposals, and check compliance before submission.
Website intelligence
Agents that analyze our GA4 funnels, surface conversion leaks, and produce weekly performance briefs.
Marketing operations
Agents that generate content, track competitors, monitor markets, and run lead-qualification workflows weekly.
Finance & operations
Agents that forecast cash flow, track project deliverables, flag risk, and keep the pipeline visible.
That's the standard your business gets. We started by automating our own engineering workflows before automating anyone else's — every agent we sell has survived our own QA-first process.
Built by engineers. Proven on ourselves.
Built by engineers, for engineering workflows first
Our AI practice grew out of automating our own engineering processes — CAD workflows, manufacturing quality control, supplier management.
Edge AI and Physical AI no software-only vendor has
AI on embedded hardware in robots, prosthetics, and drones — not just in the cloud.
Rigorous QA — not just a good demo
Agents tested against adversarial cases and real-world variation before touching your production workflow.
Private LLM deployment for sensitive data
Engineering IP, medical data, or classified environments — your data and models stay in your infrastructure.
One team from hardware to software
CAD, prototyping, additive manufacturing, embedded electronics, edge AI, and agentic software — one point of contact.
What engineering teams and business leaders ask.
What is an AI agent and how is it different from a chatbot?
What is the difference between agentic AI and robotic process automation (RPA)?
What is edge AI and why does it matter for Physical AI?
Can ALT deploy AI using our internal data without it leaving our systems?
How do you prevent AI agents from producing hallucinations or wrong outputs?
What's in the free AI Automation Self-Assessment?
What does the $499 AI Automation Audit include?
What if the audit says "don't automate anything"?
Ready to build AI that actually works in production?
Start free with the self-assessment, or go straight to the $499 audit — 100% credited toward your build within 90 days.