We build AI agents that do the real work of your company — designed around how your business actually operates, not a generic assistant bolted on.
Most AI tools are generic, and generic stops at the door of a serious business. Herivel builds agents that learn how the work actually moves through your organisation — the handoffs, the judgment calls, the quiet exceptions — and then do that work, end to end.
No off-the-shelf template. Each agent is designed around your data, your constraints, and your way of working — so it belongs inside your company, not beside it.
We study how the work really happens — not the org chart, the reality. The agent operates inside those workflows, navigating the exceptions a generic model never sees.
Not suggestions. Not another dashboard to check. The agent completes the task and hands you the result — the way a trusted colleague would.
His name was John Herivel. The Nazi Enigma cipher produced 158 million million million possible keys. Brute force was useless, and everyone knew it. Then, on May 1st 1940, the Germans changed their system. Every technique Bletchley had — gone. Turing's machines weren't ready, and wouldn't be for months. In nine days, Hitler would invade France.
But Herivel had been thinking by his fire, and asked a question no one else had: what if the operators are human? Not the machine. The people. What if a tired clerk, under the pressure of war, doesn't bother to scramble the rotors properly — leaving an invisible pattern no amount of mathematics would find, but a single shift in perspective could see instantly?
He was right.
"Herivel — this will not be forgotten."
Gordon Welchman, Head of Hut 6, when the first message broke open — May 22, 1940The "Herivel Tip" held the line through the most critical months of the war, bridging the gap until the machines arrived. He didn't out-compute the system. He out-saw it. That is the principle we build on.
Enigma was considered unbreakable. Everyone assumed you needed a bigger machine to crack it.
Herivel didn't look at the machine. He looked at the people operating it — and found the human pattern inside the inhuman complexity.
The industry is racing to build bigger models. More parameters. More compute. More brute force.
We believe the leverage is elsewhere: in understanding how your business truly works, and placing an agent exactly where it changes everything.
Herivel didn't out-compute Enigma — he out-thought it. The breakthroughs that matter have never been about raw power. They're about seeing what was always there, invisible to everyone asking the wrong question.
Every complex system has a seam — a pattern, a human truth buried in the machinery. The people who find it change everything. The people who don't build bigger hammers.
Your business isn't generic, and neither are the problems worth solving inside it. An agent that doesn't understand your workflows is just a faster way to be wrong.
Herivel couldn't tell anyone what he'd done for decades; he said he was a sanitary inspector. The work that matters is quiet — built by people who care more about the problem than the credit.
We work with a small number of clients at a time, building each agent by hand around the business it serves. If that's the kind of work you need done — let's talk.