AI Agent Development & Claude Integration
The APE Studio. Work with us. We are our own first customer.
We build AI agent systems, Claude integrations and rapid MVPs, and this studio is our own first customer. It runs day to day on the same kind of agents we build for clients.
Most agencies say "AI-native" and mean a chatbot. We can just show you the commit logs.
What we build. Three benches, one studio.
Pick a station to see what it makes, what you get, how the work runs and something it has already built.
AI Agent Development
Station 01: The agent bench. 28 agents in production. Link to this station
The offer
Custom Claude-based agents and agent fleets that do real work: research, content pipelines, monitoring and ops. A person signs off where it matters. We run 28 agents in production for our own studio, so the patterns have already met real work.
What you get
- Single agents or coordinated fleets
- Human-in-the-loop approval flows
- Persistent memory and tool use
- Deployed into your infrastructure
How the work runs
- Map the job: what the agent does, what it can touch, and where a person signs off.
- Build it with tools and memory, then test it on real work before it reaches a customer.
- Deploy it into your infrastructure with the approval gates in place.
Already built here: The Signal Box
This studio runs on 28 Claude agents. The Signal Box shows how: agents do the work, and a person approves anything customer-facing, destructive or costly. Visit the Signal Box
Claude & LLM API Integration
Station 02: The integration bench. Claude API, daily. Link to this station
The offer
Add AI features to an existing product properly: tool use, retrieval, evals, cost control and model choice, not a chat box bolted on the side. We use the Claude API daily and know where the sharp edges are.
What you get
- Feature design and prototyping
- Prompt + eval engineering
- Cost and latency budgets
- Migration between models
How the work runs
- Pick the feature worth adding and prototype it first.
- Write the prompts and the evals, with cost and latency budgets set before launch.
- Ship it, keep measuring it, and move between models when a better one lands.
Already built here: ScriptGrain's API and MCP server
ScriptGrain builds a voice profile from 45 measured reference points, then works inside the AI you already use: a public REST API and an MCP server for Claude and other assistants, 41 tools, on every plan including the free one. Step into the Printworks
Rapid MVP Development
Station 03: The build floor. weeks, not quarters. Link to this station
The offer
Idea to live product in weeks, not quarters. Agents do much of the building and people make the product decisions. You get a deployed product you can test, shipped the way we ship our own.
What you get
- Fixed-scope build sprints
- Live URL from week one
- Full code ownership, no lock-in
- Optional ongoing iteration
How the work runs
- Fix the scope in writing: what gets built, what it costs, how long it takes.
- Build in sprints, with a live URL from week one.
- Hand over the code, deployed and documented. Keep iterating with us, or take the keys.
Already built here: Launch Video Maker
A live, paid product built on this floor. Put in a site's URL and get a short motion reel with music and sound effects. Only facts you approve go on screen, and you pay once, from £9. See Launch Video Maker
The job, drawn up. Four stages, no lock-in.
Every job runs to the same plan, from the first email to the handover.
Tell us the problem
One email. What you're trying to do, what exists today, roughly when you need it.
One email
Scoping call
A short call, then a fixed-scope written proposal: what we'll build, what it costs and how long it takes.
A short call
Sprint build
We build in focused sprints with visible progress. You see the work as it happens, not at some big reveal.
Focused sprints
Ship and hand over
Deployed, documented, and yours. Stay on a retainer for iteration, or take the keys. No lock-in either way.
Yours to keep
- Drawing
- The job: enquiry to handover
- Sheet
- 1 of 1
- Scale
- Not to scale
- Lock-in
- None
Proof, not promises. Go and check.
- 28 specialised Claude agents running our own studio daily
- A portfolio of live products we build and operate ourselves
- Open-source output: Cortex Map, our Three.js knowledge graph
- A person approves anything customer-facing, destructive or costly. Agents do the work and people own the decisions
Reception
Tell us the problem.
Tell us what you're trying to build. We reply to every genuine enquiry, usually within a day.
- Write to
- hello@adaptprogressevolve.com
- Based in
- London, UK
- Replies
- Usually within a day
Questions first? Read the FAQ
Can we help?
What are you building?
Describe it in your own words. You'll get a straight answer on fit, straight away. Ask if we can help