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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 rather than 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
WHERE WE FIT

When teams bring us in

The useful moment is usually before a commitment hardens: a production rollout, a platform choice, a governance boundary, or a build path that will be expensive to unwind.

PRODUCTION REVIEW

The system works, but trust is uneven

Latency, cost, observability, eval quality, or permissions are starting to matter more than demo quality.

Need: failure-mode map, remediation sequence, and the evidence required before scale.

ARCHITECTURE DECISION

The team needs a defensible path

Agentic or deterministic? Buy or build? RAG, workflow automation, voice, or a simpler control plane?

Need: explicit tradeoffs, artifact-backed rationale, and a path leadership can approve.

SENIOR COUNTERPART

The team is capable, but under-reviewed

Important calls are being made without enough challenge around control boundaries, sequencing, reliability, or operating cost.

Need: principal-level review discipline without adding another management layer.

ACTIVE WORK

What this looks like

Autonomous workflows. Knowledge infrastructure. Streaming data platforms.

Next Step

Get a clear technical path

Send the system context, constraints, and pressure. A Principal Engineer reviews it and recommends the next step.

What you get back

  1. 1. Diagnosis What works, what is blocked, and why.
  2. 2. Recommendation Audit, advisory, sprint, or pause.
  3. 3. Scope Next action, boundaries, and timing.

No SDRs. A Principal Engineer reviews every submission.