AI agent development for Austin companies that want one agent doing one job.
I'm Yiannis Papastergiou, an independent AI consultant based in Thessaloniki, Greece, working with companies of roughly €1M+ in revenue. I build AI agents and custom AI solutions for Austin companies remotely from Greece. I have no office, team or clients in Texas. One agent, one job, one number agreed before anything is built.
AI agent development · Austin, Texas · Remote from Greece
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What does AI agent development involve for an Austin company?
AI agent development means building one agent that does one job inside your business, with clear limits on what it may and may not do, then measuring it against a number agreed in advance. For an Austin company, I build remotely from Greece: six weeks to build, 90 days to prove, and the last payment waits until the number is met.
The short answer
Why do agent projects in Austin stall after a good demo?
A demo proves that an agent can answer a question. It does not prove that the agent is live, watched, documented and understood by the people who have to use it. That is the gap where most agent projects sit for months.
On my Run page, a production checklist has four items that a demo never covers:
Live: running in the tools your team already uses, not on someone's laptop.
Monitored: somebody sees when it gets something wrong.
Documented: a guide and a recorded walkthrough that new people can learn from.
Your team trained: the people who work with it know what it does and what it must not do.
If you know what to fix, and it keeps not getting built or stays stuck in a pilot, that is the situation this work is for.
An agent that is not live, monitored, documented and understood has not shipped yet.
The problem
Which job should an Austin company give its first AI agent?
Pick the job with a three-part test. You can run it in fifteen minutes:
List the repetitive tasks your team does every week.
For each one, multiply times per week by minutes each by the hourly rate of the person doing it.
Ask two questions. Are the inputs clean and digital, such as emails, forms or a database, rather than paper and memory? Is a mistake cheap to catch?
The highest score with a yes to both is the first agent. Everything else waits for the next 90 days. Typical first jobs include answering the questions a team answers dozens of times a day from your own policies, drafting first versions of proposals, matching invoices with a person approving each one, or preparing a morning brief for the one person every decision goes through. These are examples of the kind of job, not results I have delivered for an Austin company.
Choosing the first agent
What should an AI agent at an Austin company never be allowed to do?
Every agent I build comes with a written list of what it may not do. This is the form of that list, taken from the sample scorecard on my Run page, which describes an invented company and is not a client result.
The sample agent answers only from approved manuals. Anything else gets handed to a person.
Answer from outside the approved sources
It drafts. A person sends. Outbound messages keep a human approval gate.
Send anything to a customer
It reads the service system. It does not edit the record.
Change a record in a system
The limits are agreed before the build starts, and they are part of what gets documented at handover.
Limits
What does Texas privacy law mean for an AI agent that reads customer data?
The Texas Data Privacy and Security Act took effect on 1 July 2024, according to the Texas Attorney General. It applies to companies that do business in Texas, or offer products or services consumed by Texas residents, and that handle consumers' personal data. Small businesses as defined by the federal Small Business Administration are generally exempt, but a small business that sells sensitive data must first get the consumer's consent. Several kinds of entity and data are exempt, including HIPAA-regulated entities and data covered by the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act.
Consumers can ask whether their data is being processed, correct it, have it deleted, and opt out of targeted advertising, data sales and certain profiling. The profiling opt-out covers decisions about financial or lending services, housing, insurance, health care, education enrollment, employment, criminal justice and access to basic necessities. Only the Attorney General enforces the Act. There is no private right of action, and a 30-day cure period applies before an action. Civil penalties go up to $7,500 per violation.
For an agent builder, that turns into questions to settle in the design. Where does the agent keep what it reads? Could you find it and delete it on request? Does it help make any of the profiling decisions on that list? I am not a lawyer, and your counsel decides what applies to your company.
The Texas Responsible Artificial Intelligence Governance Act took effect on 1 January 2026 and is also enforced only by the Texas Attorney General (Baker Botts, 2025). AI Governance & EU AI Act Compliance can be added at any step.
Sources: Texas Attorney General (TDPSA page) and Baker Botts (2025). Summaries are not the statutes themselves.
What applies in Texas
Platform agent, Austin agent studio or a remote independent for AI agent development?
Option
Fits when
Watch for
Not for you if you need someone physically in Austin, or want a large team building many agents at once. I build one thing against one number.
Switch on a vendor's agent
The job is standard and your tool already offers it
It follows the vendor's limits, not yours
Austin agent studio
You want a local team in the room
Ask who does the build after the sales meeting
In-house build
You have engineers and a steady backlog for it
Pilots that never reach live use
Remote independent (me)
One job, one number, a senior person who builds it
Nobody sits in your Austin office
Each option fits a different situation. Here is how I would weigh them.
Options compared
How does AI agent development work for an Austin company from Greece?
I am based in Thessaloniki, Greece. I work with Austin companies remotely. I do not have an Austin office, a Texas team or Texas clients, and I won't imply otherwise.
Run is designed for distance. You name one owner on your side. Your admin adds my setup once, which takes about 20 minutes, and each person signs in to their own tools. We meet twice in total: the kickoff and the handover, which is recorded. Every week you get a three-minute video update and the scoreboard. There are no status meetings.
Greece is usually eight hours ahead of Austin, and the gap shifts by an hour for a few weeks each spring and autumn when the clocks change on different dates. The agent is delivered into the AI tools your team already uses, not a new app to learn.
How it works from Greece
Who is the AI agent developer behind this page?
One person, who also builds. This is the background that sits behind the work.
As Product Owner at Natech I led its anti-money-laundering software from desktop to a modern web platform. It is now the company's market spearhead.
Regulated fintech
At Companies House, the UK's official business registry, I worked on the systems behind millions of searches and filings every year. At KLA I built and hardened production software for the modules that control chip fabrication.
Things that must not break
For Bronzed Studio I automated the Instagram booking flow, and the owner got back at least 10 hours a week.
A small business, measured
No company has been through all four steps of the AI P.R.O. Method. It is new, and I would rather say so. The first businesses through it get my full attention.
What I have not done yet
None of that proves what an agent would do in your company. The free AI Growth GPS lets you test my thinking on your own business first.
Who builds it
Which services sit around an AI agent?
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Start where your question is. Each step can be taken by itself.
Today's number to beat, and a clear go, not yet or no.
AI Readiness Assessment
What to build first, and what not to build at all.
AI Strategy & Roadmap
Plan · from €1,500
An agentic workflow or custom AI system, live, monitored and documented.
AI Agents & Custom AI Solutions
Repetitive workflows automated and measured in hours back each week.
Automation
Run
An owner for AI, so the agent keeps running after the build.
Fractional Chief AI Officer
Hands-on sessions on your people's real work.
AI Training & Executive Workshops
Own
For regulated businesses, or companies selling into the EU.
AI Governance & EU AI Act Compliance
At any step
Around the agent
What happens after you click
You don't have to start at the beginning. If you already have a plan, go straight to Run. Stop after any step and keep what you hold.
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Step 1
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a one-page 90-day plan, the first build quoted, and a clear go, not yet or no
Step 2
Plan, from €1,500: I look inside your numbers, processes and people, and we agree today's number and the target.
a system working in your business and the number it moved, against today's baseline
Step 3
Run: I fix the process first, then build the agent in your tools. The clock starts when access is in place, not when you pay.
No call required
Questions Austin companies ask about AI agent development
I use the two terms for one kind of work: an agentic workflow or custom AI system that does a defined job in your business. It is live, monitored and documented, with clear limits on what it may and may not do. Austin agent developers and development companies use these words loosely, so judge any proposal by its job, its limits and its number.
What is AI agent development, and is it the same as custom AI solutions in Austin?
Built in six weeks and proven in 90 days. The clock starts when access is in place, not when you pay. Plan comes first and sets the number to beat. After the build, day 90 measures the number against today's baseline, and the last payment is invoiced only once that number is met.
How long does AI agent development take?
I only print one figure on this page: Plan starts from €1,500. The build is a fixed investment, quoted in your Plan, so you see it before anything is built. I call it an investment, not a cost, because the point is a number that moves. I don't publish a build figure here.
How much does AI agent development cost in Austin?
Every build has one number, agreed in writing before we start. The last payment waits until that number is met. I do not promise a number in advance: the target is set in Plan, and day 90 measures it. Plan ends with a clear go, not yet or no.
What if the agent does not hit the agreed number?
No. I am based in Thessaloniki, Greece, and everything for Austin runs remotely. I have no Austin office, local team or Texas clients. Run uses two meetings, the kickoff and the handover, plus a weekly three-minute video update and the scoreboard, so the distance rarely gets in the way.
Do you work in person in Austin?
In the AI tools your team already uses, not a new app to learn. Your admin adds my setup once, about 20 minutes, and each person signs in to their own tools with a guide. I never ask for passwords. If I need access to test a build, it is a temporary seat you remove at handover.
Which tools does the agent live in?
If your company handles consumers' personal data and does business in Texas, the Texas Data Privacy and Security Act may apply, unless an exemption such as the small business rule or a HIPAA exemption covers you. It took effect on 1 July 2024. I am not a lawyer, so ask your counsel, and settle where the agent stores what it reads.
Does the Texas privacy law apply to an AI agent?
It can. Article 2(1)(c) of the EU AI Act covers providers and deployers located in a third country where the output of their AI system is used in the Union. If your agent serves EU customers, ask whether that applies. AI Governance & EU AI Act Compliance gives you a written answer.
Does the EU AI Act apply to an agent built for an Austin company?
No. Run builds one thing against one number. The next build comes in the next 90 days, when the loop starts again. I fix the process before I automate it, because automating a broken process only makes the mess faster.
Will you build several agents at once?
A small example: for Bronzed Studio I automated the Instagram booking flow, and the owner got back at least 10 hours a week. Behind that are 15+ years of building software that must not break, at KLA, Companies House, ARAG UK and Natech. The services are new as a set, and no company has been through all four steps yet.
What results have you delivered?
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