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title: "AI Operations: From Prototype to Production | AppStream Studio"
description: "Take AI from prototype to production and keep it there: secure architecture, identity and access, observability, cost monitoring, and ongoing ownership."
url: https://appstream.studio/solutions/agent-operations
markdown_url: https://appstream.studio/solutions/agent-operations.md
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1. [Solutions](https://appstream.studio/solutions.md)
2. [Operate](https://appstream.studio/solutions/operate.md)
3. Agent Operations

Agent Operations

# The demo worked. Now it has to run every day.

A prototype on a laptop isn’t a system. Production means real traffic, identity, audit trails, cost control, and someone accountable when it breaks. We take AI the last mile, and stay to run it.

[Talk to an AI engineer](https://appstream.studio/schedule-a-discovery-call.md) · [Explore Operate](https://appstream.studio/solutions/operate.md)

[Part of 03 Operate Keep AI working. Agent operations & maintenance](https://appstream.studio/solutions/operate.md)

Where this sits in the lifecycle

1. [01 Advise](https://appstream.studio/solutions/advise.md)
2. [02 Engineer](https://appstream.studio/solutions/engineer.md)
3. [03 Operate You are here](https://appstream.studio/solutions/operate.md)
[Govern Runs across all three](https://appstream.studio/solutions/govern.md)

The problem

## The pilot runs on a hardcoded API key. Production needs identity, access controls, audit trails, cost management, and a team that knows how to run it.

- Pilots that work in a demo and stall before launch
- No security or compliance story for the review board
- Costs that spike without warning
- Nobody accountable once it’s live

How we work

## Four steps. One team the whole way.

1. 01
### Assess the prototype
What has to change to handle real users, real traffic, and real security requirements.
2. 02
### Build in the controls
Identity, access, data classification, and audit trails designed for your regulatory environment.
3. 03
### Deploy with visibility
Observability, cost tracking, and alerting from the first day in production.
4. 04
### Run it, or hand it over
We operate it with named owners, or hand your team the runbooks and training to run it themselves.

What’s included

## What agent operations covers. In practice.

- ### Secure architecture
Data isolation and infrastructure that scales with demand, not a prototype stretched thin.
- ### Identity & access controls
Fine-grained permissions, data classification, and audit trails for regulated environments.
- ### Cost & usage monitoring
Spend, usage, and performance tracked in real time, with no surprise bills.
- ### Compliance-ready
Designed for SOC 2, HIPAA, and GDPR from the start, not after an audit finding.
- ### Operational playbooks
Runbooks, incident response, and documentation your team can actually use.
- ### Model lifecycle
Evaluate, upgrade, and retire models without breaking what depends on them.

What you can hold us to

## Commitments. Not marketing ranges.

The uptime figure is from a named case study; the rest is what the engagement commits to.

uptime

99.9%

On the scheduling platform we run across 100+ clinics

owners

Named

Someone accountable for the system after launch

who runs it

Your choice

We operate it, or your team takes it with runbooks and training

Go deeper

## More under Operate, and beyond.

- [Operate Keep AI working. Own and continuously improve AI systems after they reach production.](https://appstream.studio/solutions/operate.md)
- [Agent Strategy Know which workflows AI should take on first, before you fund the build.](https://appstream.studio/solutions/agent-strategy.md)
- [Agent Engineering Agents that do the work inside your systems, not beside them.](https://appstream.studio/solutions/agent-engineering.md)
- [Agent Knowledge Layer AI is only as good as what it knows about your business.](https://appstream.studio/solutions/agent-knowledge-layer.md)
- [Forward-deployed engineers However you start, our engineers embed with your team: your Slack, your repo, your standups.](https://appstream.studio/forward-deployed-engineers.md)

## Bring us your stalled pilot. We’ll get it running.

Tell us what stopped it shipping: the security review, the cost, or nobody to own it. We’ll tell you what it takes to get it into production and keep it there.

[Talk to an AI engineer](https://appstream.studio/schedule-a-discovery-call.md) · [See our work](https://appstream.studio/case-studies.md)

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