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. The tools exist, but your people don’t use them. We rebuild what work is and ship the AI that runs it. Then we stay until your team can run it without us.

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 a delivery problem, not an AI problem.

Most AI agencies are engineers selling implementations, or consultants selling decks. We're an operator-led build firm that treats AI like a product launch, all the way from discovery through live ops.

  • 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, and live ops once it goes live. It ships, and then it 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

Point AI at a problem with no taste behind it, and you get noise. We make the calls: what to build, what to cut, what it should feel like for the person 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 founder has run real P&Ls at the executive level. 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
Technology Proof of work

Everyone is piloting agents
We run them in production

Workflows, loops, skills, evals. The things your team has piloted, built as platforms with gates, tests, and provenance on every number. Deployable on-prem, on any model. Two systems in evidence.

01

Live-ops platform

The live-ops brain of a top-20 mobile games studio. It designs, simulates, and gates events against real player segments, then compiles them to real game config. Backtested against shipped history. 490 automated tests. Runs on their keys, in their stack.

02

Marketing OS

Organic and paid on one platform with shared intelligence: 36+ social adapters plus the full Meta Ads loop. Every post and every dollar of spend clears a rubric-graded gate. Every result is written back as a learning.

See what we build
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