RPA and ESB out. Agent mesh in. Run cost down 50–70%.

An connected AI systems is a set of coordinated AI agents — each with a defined task and a scope boundary — that replace the brittle point-to-point automation (RPA bots, ESB routing rules) in a typical integration estate. Where an RPA bot breaks when a screen changes, an agent reads the intent of the data and adapts. Where an ESB route fails when an upstream schema changes, an agent renegotiates the contract. The mesh is monitored, all money-touching writes pass a human gate, and the whole thing ships to your repo at exit.

Yes. We run parallel operations during the transition — the RPA bot and the agent run side-by-side on the same transactions, and we compare outputs before cutting over. The cut-over happens only when the agent has matched or exceeded the bot's accuracy over a defined sample. For money-touching or compliance-adjacent automations, we extend the parallel period and require sign-off from your designated accountable officer.

From $80k for a defined integration scope — typically 10–40 integrations, 8–14 weeks. The Diagnose phase maps your current integration estate, identifies which automations are worth replacing versus decommissioning, and produces a fixed-price Design proposal. The variable component of the outcome contract pays only when run cost is measurably reduced. If we don't hit the agreed reduction, the variable component doesn't release.

APRA CPS 230 is mapped in the Design phase for every financial services engagement. The connected AI systems design includes documented accountability mapping (who is accountable for each automated decision), explainability logging for every agent action, and a human-gate architecture for all money-touching writes. We can provide the CPS 230 control evidence pack at the end of the engagement.

Three primary gates: integration latency (does the agent complete the task within the agreed SLA?), contract test (does the output conform to the downstream system's expected schema?), and message-loss (did any records fail to route, and were failures surfaced for human review rather than silently dropped?). The rig runs on every deployment and ships to your team at exit.

We scope ESB replacement by the number of active routes and the complexity of message transformation. A typical 40-route ESB replacement runs $80–140k over 10–14 weeks. The Diagnose phase will tell us how many routes are genuinely active versus zombie routes that no longer have consumers — in most estates we find 20–40% of routes are unused. You only pay to replace what matters.