AGENTIC AI

We build specialised AI agents for operational decisions.

Pragmatica specialises in agentic AI built on privacy by design and on the principles of the EU AI Act. Our agents are super-specialised, deterministic and non-generative: each one does a single operational job, follows explicit rules and needs few computing resources. qb-Agentic is the core that coordinates them; qb-Plant is the first product built on it.

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HOW OUR AGENTS WORK

From signal to approved, recorded decision.

Event

An absence, a message or a plan change reaches the agents.

Plant graph

The context is modelled as a graph: people, skills, certifications, machines, shifts, rules.

Hard constraints

Rules are checked deterministically; agreements are stored as rules, cited by article.

Ranked options

The situation is re-solved at event time and the feasible options are ranked.

Human decision

A person approves, edits or rejects.

Audit record

Decision, rule, author and time are saved.

Plant context in one graphAgreements as rules, cited by articleRe-solves the shift at event timeRule sets designed for reuse
OUR APPROACH

Small agents. Clear rules. People in control.

Super-specialised

One agent, one job: detecting a disruption, checking a rule, ranking replacements.

Deterministic

Same input, same output. Every rule is applied exactly and cited by article.

Non-generative

Agents select and rank among feasible options; they do not generate text, answers or decisions of their own.

Light

Few computing resources, so agents run in the EU cloud or on the client’s own servers.

Privacy by design

Client data is anonymised, kept separate from the decision engine and under the client’s control.

Human in the loop

No agent executes a sensitive action without a person’s approval, and every step is logged.

WHY NON-GENERATIVE

For decisions about people, plausible is not enough.

Decisions on working time, safety and contracts must be correct, repeatable and explainable. Generative models can produce answers that sound right but are not, and they need large data centres. Our agents work inside explicit rules, give the same result every time and can run on modest infrastructure. This is how we align with the EU AI Act’s requirements for human oversight and record-keeping in high-risk systems.

GENERATIVE AI
  • Produces plausible text
  • Output can change for the same input
  • Large models, large data centres
QB-AGENTIC
  • Applies explicit rules, cited by article
  • Same input, same result
  • Small agents, EU cloud or on-premise
TECHNOLOGY

Standard building blocks. Pragmatica decision layer.

Graph modelsConstraint solvingRule enginesEU-cloud or on-premise infrastructure
PATENT IN PREPARATION

Selected optimisation and disruption-management methods.

EXISTING FOUNDATION

Workforce-software foundation already built.

European Union — co-funded project logo
EU CO-FUNDED PROJECT

Our AI platform project is co-funded by the European Union.

“Artificial Intelligence platform for the digital transformation of SMEs in Friuli Venezia Giulia” — PR FESR 2021-2027 Friuli Venezia Giulia, call a3.4.3 “Interventions supporting entrepreneurship”. CUP D92D25000230007.

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