A focused design engagement that maps your business processes, produces an implementation-ready agent experience — and hands engineering a Claude Managed Agents reference architecture they can deploy in days, not quarters.
Building a production agent meant servers, sandboxing, state management, checkpointing, credential scoping, and an orchestration loop you'd own forever. Engineering owned the runtime; design owned a slide deck.
Claude Managed Agents handles the runtime — sandboxed execution, persistent sessions, scoped tools, end-to-end tracing — billed by the millisecond at $0.08 per session-hour. The bottleneck moves upstream, to whether the agent is worth trusting in the first place.
Anthropic solved the runtime. We design the relationship that runs on top of it.
Blueprint Sprint translates how your business actually works today into a coherent agent experience design — and hands engineering a Managed Agents reference architecture they can stand up against the documented contract.
Walk current workflows, decision points, handoffs. Identify where agents add leverage and where they shouldn't go near.
What the agent owns, what stays human, what requires approval. Mapped against the AUX trust ladder.
Intent handshakes, confidence cues, escape hatches, memory in motion — the six AUX patterns wired into your specific flows.
Agent definition, environment spec, tool inventory, approval policy, session-runtime profile. Aligned to the Managed Agents contract.
Modeled session-hours, token volume, web-search load, cache strategy. Trust risks flagged before the first deploy.
Current state and agent-augmented state, side by side. Decision points, handoffs, and friction made explicit.
Conversation flows, approval gates, escalation paths, fallback logic. Trust patterns named and placed.
What the agent decides alone, what it proposes, what it must escalate. Tied to the AUX trust ladder.
Agent configuration, environment requirements, tool definitions, scoped permissions, session shape, event-stream expectations.
Modeled monthly cost across tokens, session-hours, and tools. Caching strategy. Sensitivity analysis on usage growth.
Where the design could break trust under real conditions, with mitigation paths and validation criteria for the build phase.
Managed Agents runs on four primitives: Agent (the contract), Environment (the workspace), Session (the running conversation), Events (the message stream). Blueprint Sprint produces a design specification for each — so engineering implements decisions, not assumptions.
Managed Agents bills on tokens, session-runtime, and tool calls — simultaneously, within a single session. Each is a design choice before it's a finance line item.
Pricing reflects Anthropic's published Managed Agents beta rates as of Q2 2026. Forecasts include sensitivity bands for usage growth and cache-hit ratios.
Managed Agents lets you mix automatic execution with explicit human approval per tool, per action, per surface. We design that contract before code gets written — and frame it in language risk-averse stakeholders will actually sign off on.
| Surface | Action class | Mode | Trust pattern |
|---|---|---|---|
| Inbound research | Read files, search the web, summarize | Auto-run | Confidence cues |
| Internal drafts | Generate proposals, briefs, replies | Auto-run | Generative momentum |
| External comms | Send email, post messages, publish | Approval | Clarify before commit |
| Systems of record | Write to CRM, update ledgers, change state | Approval | Escape hatch + audit trail |
| Irreversible actions | Payments, contracts, deletions | Approval | Clarify before commit · pushback |
A 30-minute scoping call to map the workflow, identify the agent's surface area, and confirm Blueprint Sprint is the right engagement for where you are right now.
Tell us about the workflow you want to turn into an agent. We'll scope it and come back with a view on what the sprint looks like for your context.