AI Research Agent Development
AI research agent development, monitor markets, competitors and regulations continuously, with sourced briefs delivered on your schedule.
HandsOnTech builds AI research agents that monitor competitors, markets, prospects and regulations continuously, reading sources at machine scale and delivering sourced, structured briefs so your team starts informed instead of searching.
Research is hours of gathering for minutes of insight. An agent inverts the ratio: it watches the sources continuously (competitor sites, filings, news, reviews, dockets) and your analysts receive a morning brief with citations, not a to-do list of tabs.
Invert the research ratio
Knowledge work runs on a bad ratio: hours of gathering for minutes of insight. Analysts tab through competitor sites, filings, news and reviews to assemble a picture that’s stale by the next sprint. A research agent inverts it, it watches your defined sources continuously, reads at machine scale, and delivers structured briefs on your schedule: competitor pricing changes, funding and hiring signals, regulatory updates, prospect trigger events, review sentiment shifts. Your team starts the morning informed and spends its hours on judgment, which is the part you actually pay them for.
Briefs with receipts, not vibes
Research you can’t verify is gossip. Every claim in an agent brief links to its source; confidence markers separate confirmed facts from single-source signals; and anything ambiguous is flagged for human reading rather than smoothed into false certainty. Analysts verify in one click instead of re-researching from scratch. You define the watchlist and the cadence (hourly alerts for the market-moving stuff, weekly digests for the landscape) and the agent’s scope grows as its track record earns it. Hallucinated market intelligence is worse than none; the architecture assumes that from day one.
Agents that do real work
Support, sales, voice and research agents with guardrails.
Support agents
Ticket deflection with CRM lookup and human handoff.
Sales agents
Qualification, scheduling and pipeline updates.
Voice agents
Phone and IVR flows with natural language routing.
Research agents
Summarize docs, web and internal knowledge with citations.
Agent delivery playbook
Intent map
Top user jobs, tools required and escalation rules.
Design UX
Streaming, confidence and failure states in the UI.
Build & tool
LLM orchestration, APIs and evaluation suites.
Tune
Live conversation review and prompt iteration.
Three ways to engage
Every model starts with a free consultation and a written quote, the price you sign is the price you pay.
Fixed-Price Project
A scoped build with a written price and a launch date, agreed before design begins.
- Written scope and fixed quote within 48 hours
- Two-week sprints with staging demos every other Friday
- Milestone payments tied to shipped work
- 30-day bug warranty in the contract
- Code, designs and content transfer on final payment
Growth Retainer
Monthly compounding work on organic and paid visibility, reported against pipeline.
- Monthly sprint plan agreed in advance
- Live dashboard, the same numbers we see
- AI visibility report: which prompts name you
- No long lock-in, cancel with 30 days notice
- Same team as your build, no handoff loss
Dedicated Team
Senior specialists embedded in your Slack, repo and standups, capacity without recruiting.
- Start within 1–2 weeks of the intro call
- Your tools, your process, your time zone
- Scale seats up or down with two weeks notice
- NDA and full IP assignment from day one
- Direct access, no account-manager relay
HandsOnTech vs. off-the-shelf bots
What we build, and what it costs
Published ranges and timelines, the same figures that appear in your written scope. Client work is covered by NDA; references are shared during scoping for qualified projects.
Websites and e-commerce
Marketing sites, storefronts and headless builds on WordPress, Shopify, Next.js or Astro, with green Core Web Vitals and SEO architecture as launch requirements.
$15k–$75k published range · 4–10 wk typical build
Website development servicesMobile apps
Native iOS and Android or React Native and Flutter, carried through App Store and Google Play review, with crash monitoring and post-launch releases included.
$45k–$180k published range · 10–20 wk typical build
Mobile app development servicesAI products and automation
One workflow piloted before anything scales, then production agents, chatbots and dashboards with retrieval, evaluation sets, guardrails and cost monitoring.
$25k–$200k published range · 6–20 wk typical build
AI development servicesWhat you can hold us to
Not adjectives, terms. Each of these is written into the engagement before you sign.
Fixed price, in writing, before work starts
You receive a written scope with milestones, deliverables and a delivery date within 48 hours of the free audit. No hourly creep, and no change order three weeks before launch.
You own everything on final payment
Source code, Figma files, content and analytics access transfer to you when the final invoice clears. No license fees, no vendor lock-in, and no platform you can only edit by paying us.
A 30-day bug warranty, in the contract
Bugs found in the first month after go-live are fixed free. It is a contractual term rather than a sales promise, and it is the reason we would rather ship correctly than ship early.
Clear answers about AI agents
Buyers ask which agent type fits their stack. Our pages answer that directly, with scope, timeline and integration detail.
- ✅ Agent-type comparison sections
- ✅ FAQ on data privacy and retention
- ✅ Links to AI dev and automation services
- ✅ Schema for professional service offerings
30-day warranty
Bugs found in the first month get fixed free, in the contract.
You own everything
Code, designs and content transfer on final payment.
U.S. hours overlap
Standups and demos on ET, CT, MT or PT, your pick.
Fixed price, fixed date
Quoted in writing before work starts. No surprise change orders.
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Common questions
What can a research agent monitor for us?
Competitor pricing and positioning changes, funding and hiring signals, regulatory updates in your industry, prospect trigger events, review sentiment across platforms, any recurring question with public sources. You define the watchlist; the agent reads it hourly so nobody has to.
How do we trust what the agent reports?
Every claim links to its source, the brief is a set of receipts, not vibes. Confidence markers distinguish confirmed facts from single-source signals, and anything ambiguous is flagged for human read rather than smoothed over. Analysts verify in one click instead of re-researching.
What is AI Research Agent Development?
AI Research Agent Development is a scoped, fixed-price engagement from HandsOnTech, a U.S. design, development and growth studio headquartered in Sacramento, California. We map URL architecture, internal links and schema before build, tie AI agent services work to one business metric you name, and deliver in two-week sprints with staging demos on U.S. business hours.
How much does AI research agent development cost?
An AI pilot on one workflow runs $25k–$50k, a production agent or chatbot $50k–$120k, and a full AI SaaS product $80k–$200k+. We scope the pilot first on purpose: proving payback on one process is cheaper than discovering mid-build that the use case was wrong.
How long does AI research agent development take?
Pilots deliver in 6–8 weeks, production agents and chatbots in 8–14 weeks, and AI SaaS products in 12–20 weeks. Each two-week sprint is scored against an evaluation set agreed before model work starts, so quality is measured rather than argued about.
Do you work with businesses across the United States?
Yes. We are headquartered at 2108 N ST STE N, Sacramento, CA 95816 and serve clients in all 50 states, remote-first, with daily overlap on Eastern, Central, Mountain and Pacific time. Contracts and IP assignment run through a U.S. entity, and on-site working sessions in major metros are available by arrangement.
What platform or stack do you build on?
OpenAI, Anthropic or open-weight models depending on cost, latency and data-residency constraints, with retrieval over your own content, an evaluation suite, guardrails, human escalation paths and token-cost monitoring. Model choice stays swappable so you are not locked to one vendor.
How is this different from an agency or an offshore team?
One team covers design, development and growth, so there is no handoff tax and nobody to blame. You talk to the designer and engineer doing the work instead of an account manager relaying messages. And it is contractual, not a pitch: fixed price, U.S. hours, a 30-day bug warranty and full ownership transfer on final payment.
Get a timeline, a price range and a next step.
Send your URL and the metric this project has to move. A free 48-hour audit comes back with a prioritized fix list, and qualified projects get a written fixed-price scope within two business days.
Tell us what you're building.
You'll get a timeline, a price range and the next step, usually within two business days. A technical lead reads every message, not a sales development rep. No deck, no discovery-call maze.
- ✉️sales@handsontech.ioWe reply within one business day
- 📞(866) 965-8749Mon–Fri, 9am–6pm ET
- 📍2108 N ST STE NSacramento, CA 95816 — serving all 50 states
- ⚡Free 48-hour auditRecorded walkthrough plus a prioritized fix list
- 🔒NDA on requestSigned before you share anything sensitive