Higher Agency · SF/Berlin/Remote
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Operator-led build firm · Boutique by design

Custom AI infrastructure for a new shape_of_work

“Adding AI features” hasn’t moved the number on the spreadsheet. We rebuild what work is — and ship the AI that runs it.

Agents live
170
Specialized agents across Alexandria
Prior shipping
$4B+
Lifetime revenue across products founder has shipped
First call
30m
With a founder, not a junior screen
Shipped at
  • PopCap
  • EA
  • NaturalMotion
  • Zynga
  • Wooga
  • Playtika
  • Ten Square
Partnered with
  • Anthropic
  • OpenAI
  • ElevenLabs
Built across
  • Google
  • Meta
  • xAI
  • DeepSeek
  • Black Forest Labs
  • Midjourney
  • Runway
  • Higgsfield
  • Seedance

In production: a top-20 mobile games studio runs live-ops on agent teams we built. Reference on request.

Thesis A diagnosis

AI projects don't fail because of the AI. They fail for the same reasons all products fail

“42% of enterprises abandoned the majority of their AI initiatives in 2025, up from 17% the year before.”
Source: S&P Global, 2025 · Enterprise AI Survey

Bad production, no creative direction, and no one in the room who's actually shipped production AI. That's not an AI problem, it's a delivery problem.

Most AI agencies are engineers selling implementations, or consultants selling decks. We're something else. An operator-led build firm that treats AI like a product launch. Discovery, scoping, production, live ops.

That's the difference between a pilot and a business.

  • Most AI agencies Higher Agency
  • Engineers selling implementations Operators who ship the thing and run it after go-live
  • Strategy decks → pilot → maybe production Production-first. Ship, then tune.
  • Generalists across "all industries" Deep consumer DNA, transferable to any consumer business
  • Methodology document as the deliverable Working systems that learn with every engagement
Approach How we work

Discovery, scoping, production, live ops. The loop that turns a pilot into a business.

Each phase has a working deliverable, not a deck.

I

Product

We run AI engagements like product launches. Scoping, milestones, ruthless cuts, live operations after go-live. The thing ships. The thing keeps working.

  • Roadmap with budget and risk attached to every initiative
  • Cross-functional staffing, not "an AI engineer in a room"
  • Measurement framework defined before a line of code
II

Creative direction

AI without taste is noise. We make calls about what to build, what to cut, and what the experience should feel like for the human on the other side.

  • Player / customer-side instinct from F2P and consumer products
  • Prompt design, agent personas and tone treated as craft
  • Editorial standards on what an AI is allowed to ship
III

Commercial judgment

Our team has carried P&Ls north of $200M. We know what a CFO looks at, why a board kills a project, and how to make your AI initiative survive the planning cycle.

  • ROI framing executives can defend in a board meeting
  • Build / buy / partner decisions with P&L responsibility
  • Internal champion development. Your team owns it after we leave.
Alexandria The delivery moat

Most agencies show up with a deck
We show up with Alexandria

Alexandria is the proprietary AI platform we built to do our work. 170 specialized agents across 22 teams, a router that picks the right one for the job, and a memory layer that learns the who, what, where, and when of your team and adapts recursively. Seven self-improvement loops, all automated. Internal-only. Not for sale, not for fork. The engine of every Higher Agency project.

  • 01170 specialized agents across 22 teams: strategy, research, design, code, ops, review, analytics, trading, more.
  • 02Routing intelligence: fast-path matching for known patterns; LLM router for the rest. Weighted by ELO + trust.
  • 03Hourly tournaments: agents evaluated against each other, not shipped on faith. 4,200+ learnings written back.
  • 04Weekly DNA mutations: bottom-3 agents recombine, variants compete, winners replace originals.
Talk to us about Alexandria
Contact Get in touch

One conversation. No deck. We'll tell you whether AI is the right call here

The first call is 30 minutes with a founder. We come prepared on your business, you come prepared on your problem, and we both leave knowing whether there's a fit. If there isn't, we'll point you to someone better suited. We mean it.

  • 0130 minutes, founder on the call, no junior screen
  • 02We arrive with a perspective on your business, not a generic intro deck
  • 03You leave with a written next step, regardless of whether we work together

or email: patrick@higheragency.solutions