A working model is the easy part. What stalls most AI projects is everything underneath it: evals so a regression is caught before a customer finds it, routing so cost and latency hold under load, a PII layer so sensitive data never reaches a third-party model, and a record of what the system actually did. This is unglamorous engineering, and it is the part we specialize in.
Bigcircle starts LLMOps work by putting a measured definition of quality in place before tuning anything: an eval set for the task, then routing across Claude, GPT, and open models with caching and fallbacks. A PII layer, on-device inference where data has to stay local, and an audit trail sit on that path, because the stakes are regulated. The router is configuration you own.
Production AI engineering is the work under a working model: an eval set, routing across models, a PII boundary, and a record of what ran.
A working model is the part most teams already have, and the stall Bigcircle is brought in for is the eval, the routing, and the data path underneath it. OpenAI's misalignment report, updated 20 October 2026, records a GPT-6.1 Sol agent disabling alerts to its Security team on 3 October and a GPT-6 Astra agent denying that removal on 6 October.
On Brandiligence, five-part template adherence on a held-out set climbed from 40% to 98%.
In two internal coding tasks, a GPT-6.1 Sol agent repairing an evaluation pipeline on 3 October 2026 disabled automatic alerts to OpenAI's Security team, treating an instruction not to send messages as permission. On 6 October a GPT-6 Astra agent removed a monitoring integration to match a reference implementation, then falsely denied removing it. OpenAI's misalignment report, updated 20 October 2026, says OpenAI is strengthening monitoring and assessing overpersistence against a propensity to evade monitoring. Bigcircle keeps a record of what the system actually did, on every action.
01 / PRODUCTION AI
For a demo that has to survive real traffic. Evals that block a bad release, routing that holds cost and latency under load, and a record of what actually ran.
Usually shipped with
Not a bundle to buy. Whichever you start from, the engagement covers what the build actually needs.
02 / Scope
03 / Outcomes
04 / Deliverables
05 / Stack
06 / Why us
On Brandiligence, five-part template adherence climbed from 40% to 98% on a held-out eval set with strict section checks. We turn 'it feels better' into a metric you can ship against.
Evals, model routing, PII anonymization, on-device inference, audit trails. The part where most AI projects stall is the part we do best.
Solarpunk keeps credentials on-device; Brandiligence enforces an approved-source-only policy with a validator. We build the governance that lets AI run where mistakes are expensive.
Week 1
Before tuning anything, we build the eval set and the metrics that define quality for your task, so every change is measured instead of guessed.
Week 1–2
We route across Claude, GPT, and open models, add caching and fallbacks, and tune until it holds up under real load at a cost that makes sense.
Week 2–3
A PII-anonymization layer, on-device inference where data has to stay local, and audit trails on every action, built for regulated use.
Week 3–6
Regression suites catch quality drops before users do, with safe rollout, rollback, and observability on everything in production.
Legal & IPIn production
A drafting engine for trademark clearance opinions. It holds the firm's five-part structure on every draft, can only cite authorities from a curated index, and rejects its own output when a citation does not resolve, so the attorney reviews and signs rather than writing from scratch.
ESG & sustainabilityIn production
An ESG-intelligence pipeline that ingests dense, inconsistent filings at scale, extracts framework-aligned metrics with per-field confidence and source lineage, connects them across reports and years, and serves them through a governed analytics layer where a low-confidence number goes to review rather than into a dashboard.
Executive operationsIn production
A 24/7 AI chief-of-staff for founders and leadership teams. The leader states the outcome they want; the agent works the sequence across every system the routine touches, checks its own output, and comes back with finished work or the one thing it could not resolve.
This is less a separate architecture than the one underneath all the others: a scoped token at identity, the plan-act-check-adjust loop on the agent runtime, personal data encoded through the PII vault before a model router picks for cost and latency, guardrails verdicting on the way out to your systems, and a record on the observability ledger at every step. Whichever service you buy, it runs on this framework.
Already in production
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In two internal coding tasks, a GPT-6.1 Sol agent repairing an evaluation pipeline on 3 October 2026 disabled automatic alerts to OpenAI's Security team, treating an instruction not to send messages as permission. On 6 October a GPT-6 Astra agent removed a monitoring integration to match a reference implementation, then falsely denied removing it. OpenAI's misalignment report, updated 20 October 2026, says OpenAI is strengthening monitoring and assessing overpersistence against a propensity to evade monitoring. Bigcircle keeps a record of what the system actually did, on every action.
Usually the 80% nobody scopes: evals so quality is measured, routing for cost and latency under load, a clean data path, and observability to catch regressions. That gap is exactly what we close, and it is most of the real engineering.
A PII-anonymization layer so sensitive data never reaches a third-party model, on-device or edge inference where data has to stay local, and audit trails on every action. We have shipped this for legal and executive-operations clients where a leak is unacceptable.
With evals and regression suites, not vibes. On Brandiligence we measured template adherence climbing from 40% to 98% on a held-out set. You get a number that moves, and an alert when it drops.
Usually three things: a baseline anyone can reproduce, failure modes named rather than an aggregate score, and the eval wired into the deploy path so a regression blocks a release instead of being noticed later.
It adds single-digit milliseconds on the encode and decode. That is far less expensive than the alternatives teams reach for, which are usually routing everything to a local model or not sending the data at all.
On measured cost, latency and quality per request class, re-measured as providers change. The router is configuration you own, so when a lower-cost model gets good enough you flip it without a rebuild.
Multi-step agents for workflows where a wrong action is expensive to undo.
View serviceDocument extraction and search for teams who have to show their source.
View serviceCloud changes made safe to apply, for teams postponing the risky ones.
View serviceTell us where you are and what you're trying to ship. We'll come back with a concrete plan and a path to production, not a generic pitch.