<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>Svolta · Insights</title><description>Engineering writing from Svolta on agents, quality checks, systems, and practical AI builds for operations teams.</description><link>https://www.svoltagroup.com/</link><language>en-au</language><item><title>AI agent infrastructure: the layer that makes agents safe to run</title><link>https://www.svoltagroup.com/insights/ai-agent-infrastructure</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.svoltagroup.com/insights/ai-agent-infrastructure</guid><description>Agents fail in production for infrastructure reasons, not model reasons: no grounding, no evals, no audit trail, no data layer. The five components underneath every agent system that survives contact with a real queue.</description><pubDate>Sat, 04 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>Infrastructure</category><category>ai infrastructure</category><category>agents</category><category>production ai</category></item><item><title>Custom AI agent development services: what &apos;custom&apos; should mean</title><link>https://www.svoltagroup.com/insights/custom-ai-agent-development-services</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.svoltagroup.com/insights/custom-ai-agent-development-services</guid><description>Every vendor sells &apos;custom&apos; AI agents. The word should mean your workflow, your systems, your data, your evals, and your ownership at handover. A checklist for reading proposals, and the parts that should never be custom.</description><pubDate>Sat, 04 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>Agents</category><category>ai agents</category><category>custom development</category><category>buying advice</category></item><item><title>Evals before agents: the order that saves the project</title><link>https://www.svoltagroup.com/insights/evals-before-agents</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.svoltagroup.com/insights/evals-before-agents</guid><description>Write the eval set on your own data before you pick the framework, the model, or the vector database. Skip this and the project burns a quarter relitigating quality questions you could have answered in a week.</description><pubDate>Thu, 04 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>Evals</category><category>evals</category><category>agents</category><category>production</category><category>governance</category></item><item><title>Agentic workflows that survive production</title><link>https://www.svoltagroup.com/insights/agentic-workflows-production</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.svoltagroup.com/insights/agentic-workflows-production</guid><description>A demo agent and a production agent share a vocabulary. They do not share an infrastructure. Caching, deterministic fallbacks, observability, eval gates on every change. The boring discipline most teams skip.</description><pubDate>Thu, 21 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>Agents</category><category>agents</category><category>production</category><category>infrastructure</category><category>reliability</category></item><item><title>Process mapping is the first AI artifact</title><link>https://www.svoltagroup.com/insights/process-mapping-as-the-first-artifact</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.svoltagroup.com/insights/process-mapping-as-the-first-artifact</guid><description>Map the process before you write a prompt. The map is where you find the work an agent can actually do, and the implicit context that will kill the project if it stays hidden until integration.</description><pubDate>Fri, 03 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>Process</category><category>process</category><category>discovery</category><category>operations</category><category>diagnostics</category></item></channel></rss>