--- title: "AI Agent Development Company | &above" canonical_url: "https://www.andabove.com/services/ai-agent-development" last_updated: "2026-08-07T16:28:13.706Z" meta: description: "AI agent development company in London. Custom agentic AI, AI integration & enterprise AI solutions for scale-ups & enterprises - Google, YourAvatar." "og:description": "AI agent development company in London. Custom agentic AI, AI integration & enterprise AI solutions for scale-ups & enterprises - Google, YourAvatar." "og:title": "AI Agent Development Company" "twitter:description": "AI agent development company in London. Custom agentic AI, AI integration & enterprise AI solutions for scale-ups & enterprises - Google, YourAvatar." "twitter:title": "AI Agent Development Company" --- # &above [&above](https://www.andabove.com/index.md) [Work](https://www.andabove.com/work.md) [Services](https://www.andabove.com/services.md) [Feed](https://www.andabove.com/feed.md) [About](https://www.andabove.com/about.md) [Contact](https://www.andabove.com/contact.md) --- # AI agent development Agents that act, not just answer. An AI agent development company for scale-ups and enterprises: custom agentic AI connected to your real tools, data and workflows, integrated with your existing systems, built by small, senior, embedded squads. ## Trusted by ambitious teams to design & deploy custom AI agents. - Google - YouTube - Revolut - Tesco - dataiku - Sage - choreograph - SMARTLY.IO ## What we do An AI agent development company for custom, connected agentic systems &above is an AI agent development company based in Southwark, London. We design and build custom AI agents - agentic systems that connect to your tools, data and business logic so they can take action, not just generate a response. Most off-the-shelf AI assistants stop at answering questions. We build **custom AI solutions** that go further: agents that read from and write to your CRM, your internal APIs, your knowledge base and your workflows, with the permissions and guardrails an enterprise needs. That means real **AI integration services** work alongside the agent build itself - the agent is only as useful as the systems it's connected to. We work with scale-ups and global enterprises alike as an **enterprise AI solutions** partner - small senior squads, startup pace, enterprise-grade delivery, guardrails and observability built in from day one. Looking for automation or a broader AI software build too? See our [AI agency services](https://www.andabove.com/services/ai-agency.md). Want the same senior engineers embedded directly in your own team? See our [forward-deployed engineers](https://www.andabove.com/services/forward-deployed-engineers.md). Building a new product from scratch? See our [digital product agency services](https://www.andabove.com/services/digital-product-agency.md). ## Pillar showcase Custom agent development, integrated end to end What AI agent development delivers - agents designed around your business logic, connected to your real systems, and run with enterprise-grade guardrails. ### Agentic AI design Agents built around your logic. We design custom AI agents around your specific business logic and decision-making - not a generic chatbot wrapper. Every agent is scoped to the tasks it should actually own. We defined & piloted a creative intelligence agent with Sage to drive ads ROI. [VIEW MORE](https://www.andabove.com/work/sage/disparate-data-to-creative-intelligence.md) ### AI integration services Connected to your real systems. Custom AI solutions connected to your CRM, internal APIs, data warehouse and existing tools - so agents can retrieve real context and act, with proper authentication and access control. We uncovered sales opportunities for 5,000 Googlers with an agentic sales system. [VIEW MORE](https://www.andabove.com/work/google/scaling-googles-salesforce-with-custom-solutions.md) ### Enterprise AI solutions Guardrails, from day one. Permissions, business-logic guardrails, and observability built into every agent system we ship - so agentic AI is safe to run at enterprise scale, not just in a demo. We built an AI-native creative studio that took Tesco's retail ads from four-week approvals to days. [VIEW MORE](https://www.andabove.com/work/tesco/retail-media-from-weeks-to-live-in-days.md) ## Our Work Our work Custom AI agent development for Google, YourAvatar, and other ambitious teams. ### Google ![Google Gemini Sales Sidekick](https://www.andabove.com/content-media/work/case-studies-gemini-mockup.gen.webp) 5,000 sellers. One agent system. An Agent Operating System for Google Cloud - connecting CRM insights with hundreds of resources so 5,000 sellers can understand customer maturity and see the next best opportunity, automatically. [View case study](https://www.andabove.com/work/google/scaling-googles-salesforce-with-custom-solutions.md) ### YourAvatar ![YourAvatar companion onboarding](https://www.andabove.com/content-media/work/home-youravatar-companion.gen.webp) Agent companions, built for real people. A custom conversational AI agent for YourAvatar - built with real memory, context, and guardrails so it could support elderly users and their families safely, not just demo well. [View case study](https://www.andabove.com/work/youravatar/agent-companions-to-end-isolation.md) ## AI agent development FAQs Straight answers for teams evaluating an AI agent development company. ### What is AI agent development? AI agent development is the process of designing, building and deploying AI agents - systems that can reason about a task and take action, not just generate a response. That includes defining the agent's business logic, connecting it to real tools and data, and adding the permissions and guardrails needed to run it safely. ### What is the difference between an AI agent and a chatbot? A chatbot answers questions. An AI agent acts - it can read from and write to your systems, chain together multiple steps, and complete a task on your behalf within defined guardrails. Most of what we build sits closer to the agent end: connected to real tools, not just a conversation window. ### Do you offer custom AI solutions or off-the-shelf agents? Custom. Off-the-shelf AI assistants are built for the general case; we design agents around your specific business logic, data, and workflows, so the agent actually fits how your team works rather than the other way round. ### What does AI integration services work involve? Connecting an agent to your existing systems - CRM, internal APIs, data warehouse, knowledge base, and tools like Slack - with proper authentication, permissions, and access control, so the agent has real context to act on rather than working from a static prompt. ### Is agentic AI safe to run at enterprise scale? It can be, with the right guardrails: scoped permissions, business-logic constraints, human-in-the-loop checkpoints where needed, and observability so you can see what an agent did and why. We build these in from day one rather than bolting them on after a proof of concept. ### How is &above different from other AI agent development companies? We combine agent design, systems integration, and enterprise-grade guardrails in one embedded squad, backed by delivery experience spanning scale-ups and enterprises: Google, Tesco, Sage, Revolut, and YourAvatar. Small senior teams, startup pace, production quality. ### Do you work with scale-ups as well as enterprises? Yes. We work with ambitious scale-ups and global enterprises - from YourAvatar and Upstix to Google and Tesco. The engagement model adapts to your stage: discovery sprints and proofs of concept for early bets, embedded squads for full agent builds and integration. ### Where is your AI agent development company based? Our HQ is in Southwark, London - The Binary, 27 Copperfield Street, SE1 0EN. We work with clients across the UK and internationally, from scale-ups to global enterprises. ## Have an agent to design or connect? 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